What does the basic architecture look like?
Architecture diagram
The service itself is a WAR packaged JEE6 deployable web application. The client can be anything. For the purposes of this project I used SoapUI as my client so that I could avoid messing about creating a custom UI. As I have already mentioned in other posts, the package only contains 8 or so files but delivers basic XML CRUD via a RESTful web-service.
The reason the package can be so light is because Glassfish, JavaDB, Jersey, JAXB and Eclipselink do most of the work. Deployment of the service is very fast – mere milliseconds on my PC.
