Writing Non soap web service

Please let me know how to write a non soap web service. On the web I could find many tutorials to develop SOAP and REST based web services. But nothing really helpful for non soap. I would like t开发者_开发问答o add custom http handling.

I am looking forward to host it on tomcat on a Windows machine. But any feasible options are welcome.

REST services are by far simpler to get a start on. You did not specify whether you are interested in a particular language but you tagged your question with the [tomcat] tag, so I can suggest Java. REST is a part of Java specifications now and a good way to start is the Oracle Java EE tutorial on REST.