What to learn to do Java web services?

Question

The last time I did Java web development was in 2004 with Java Servlets and JSP. I never really got anywhere with EJBs. I recall my experience in developing web services\dynamic web sites with these to be slow (in terms of development time) and painful (in terms of easy deployment).

What do most businesses use to develop Java based websites these days? Do you use AXIS or some other framework to do web services? Do you use JSP or some other technology for the front end?

Answer 1

The current standards are to use a JAX-WS (for SOAP web services) and JAX-RS (for RESTful web services).

These are standards that have multiple implementations. JAX-WS has Metro, CXF, etc. JAX-RS has Jersey, RESTEasy, etc.