The company I'm currently working for wants to use Java for their web service needs (I'm trying to push a RESTful approach, but I'm have 0 knowledge of how they

The company I'm currently working for wants to use Java for their web service needs (I'm trying to push a RESTful approach, but I'm have 0 knowledge of how they could start that in the Java world). There is a standard for that (as usual in Java :)) - JAX-RS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_API_for_RESTful_Web_Services http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_API_for_RESTful_Web_Servic... It's actually pretty ok, it requires relatively little ceremony. The most popular implementations (Jersey and RestEasy) work well.