A tutorial on creating standalone web service under windows using Java opensource serverlet engine like TomCat

Question

I need a tutorial for creating simple, executable web service runing stand alone on windows... So like .exe that can run on any windows with JRE installed and will open port like 4444 and will listen to http(s) calls and respond to them. Tutorial can use Spring and Hibernate and any other OpenSource libs. Tutorial can use any opensource container like TomCat. Where to get such tutorial (step by step one - for dummies like me)

Answer 1

If this question is really about web services, my recommendation would be to go for a JAX-WS stack and one of the following tutorials:

• Getting Started with JAX-WS Web Services (NetBeans has plenty of very didactic tutorials)
• Creating a Java-first web service using CXF or Metro