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Systems which follow REST principles are often referred to as RESTful. RESTful Web Services is one among them and simplifies the development of web services when compared to SOAP Web Services. The Today, the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) provides full basic support for building and deploying RESTful Web Services. However, the upcoming Java API for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS) specification will provide the full support for RESTful Web Services for the Java platform.

XML Message Level

In RESTful Web Services applications commonly work at XML message level which unlocks full potential of utilizing the web service. Although this has a downside by increasing complexity of client applications, compared to the significant ease of developing services its just a very little bump on the road. JAX-WS provides a generic Provider and Dispatch interface to access the message payload using low level API.

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