Site / book / resource to learn web services in java

Question

I m new to java web services. since there are so many standards and so many things.I am unsure where to start..this is for all the professionals out there, if any of you know any of the resources which will help me get started ..please send out your suggestions.I dont know what to go for. jax-rs, restful, soap? what to go for and where to check information is a hurdle.. Also i am not new to java, but new to web services...Thank you very much for your time.

Answer 1

If you want to go the Java / Netbeans route, there is a good overview here which covers JAX , RESTful and SOAP (Metro).

Edited to cover comment:

As per the article above:

"The range of operations that can be passed in SOAP is much broader than what is available in REST, especially in security.

SOAP-based web services are suitable for heavyweight applications using complicated operations and for applications requiring sophisticated security, reliability or other WS-* standards-supported features. They are also suitable when a transport protocol other than HTTP has to be used. Many of Amazon's web services, particularly those involving commercial transactions, and the web services used by banks and government agencies are SOAP-based."

There's a good summary here

So it depends on what you require the web service to do.

In terms of Eclipse / Restful, there is a good tutorial here.