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Sun has published the early draft review of JSR-311, JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services in the Java Community Process (JCP). Despite the name what this really is seems to be is a generic HTTP server API. There's no client side component, no support for non-HTTP RESTful services, and "will be sufficiently flexible to support a variety of HTTP applications including WebDAV[6] and the Atom Publishing Protocol[7]." WebDAV is of course the poster child of non-RESTful Web services. More...