Are you being Web serviced?: Not just another pretty WS-* standard

As you may know, the version 0.5 RESTful Web Services plugin for NetBeans IDE has been available since 18 January. I've already updated the snippets in relevant tutorials. The most visible changes in the API are:

• Replacement of the @UriTemplate annotation with the simpler @Path.
• The @HttpMethod annotation has become a meta-annotation, with the following changes:
  • @HttpMethod("GET")-->@GET
  • @HttpMethod("POST")-->@POST
  • @HttpMethod("PUT")-->@PUT

The deployment and complilation processes have also been simplified. For more details, see Paul Sandoz's blog. Releases of Jersey and the NetBeans REST plugin are related to the JAX-RS release schedule. The Jersey release schedule is available here.