I recently gave a 10 minutes presentation of JAX-RS - a brand new API for RESTful web services in Java - the slides used are published bwlow:



It is just a quick teaser, for more info visit these places:

• Jersey: JAX-RS (JSR 311) Reference Implementation
• Draft API Documentation

I consider JAX-RS state of the art for implementing RESTful web services, even better than ROR and best of all it is easy to use.