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In Java Land, everything is tied up in multiple layers of multi-colored wrapping paper. The abstraction often provides niceties and protections and convenience, etc. But, sometimes it practically makes you forget where you are. For instance, why would anyone write a little howto on requesting something over the web from the context of the web. That should be easy, right? Well, yes, I think so. And it turns out it is in Java, as it is in many other languages. It's just that there you're super close to the HTTP protocol all the time, and in many Java ...
BackboneJS is setup to do some pretty sweet single-page app action. And of course, a single page app will probably be wanting to talk to web services on the server. And if your server code is doing the Java jive, then a great way to expose your REST services is via JAX-RS. It's as easy as Mikey singin' ABC-123!
One of the applications I am testing deals a lot with finance information. However, since most of the data is stored in a remote database, I can't collect or check all the data I want to. We only store a fraction of this information in our schema. I had the wsdl files from the finance department in order to make web service calls. Here's how I did it.