I have a few utility methods that I wrote in Java, for test data creation against a service. A couple of my colleagues who have the same use case thought it would be cool if they could re-use it, but they are writing their tests in Perl and Python respectively. So I am thinking of standing up a JSON REST service that would expose these methods.
I have limited experience writing web-apps. What would be the fastest way to stand up and deploy my service?
I am thinking of using eclipse/spring to do it and ant to deploy on a Jetty container. But I would like to hear your experiences about this. Also it seems some IDEs/Plugins have better support for some technologies than others. So I would like to hear what IDE/Plugins + J2EE Technology stack + Server(If that matters) is a good combination for my usecase and why. I would like to stick to open source software.