Developing Restful Web Service with JAX-WS/Axis2

I'm new with Restful Web Services and got some questions about some of the requirements needed to create one.

1) I got only Apache2 installed on machine and I can't install any EE Server. Is it possible in this circumstances create Restful Web Service? What is better in my case Axis2 or JAX-WS?

2) I want to make the content of some file accessible to Internet, so I need to create the function which is 开发者_运维问答going to be called by client and return for example XML from file? Is there any way to share directly the files using URL mapping?

Thanks a lot!

1) you can't install any EE Server, OK. If you can install Apache Tomcat, use mod_jk so that Apache can redirect some requests to Tomcat. In this case you can use Apache Axis2, Apache CXF or METRO (mainly SOAP services) or Jersey (for RESTful services). On the other hand, if you can't install tomcat, try PHP with Zend Framework to develop web services;

2) with RESTful web services you can return any resource (a file content) to the user using XML or JSON.

Best regards, Romualdo.