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Wise comment about JPA, it's full of gotchas and just when you need something fancy that you think will justify all the troubles of setting it up, you find that is impossible either because of a bug in your provider or because the spec just didn't cover that case. On the rest side the real beauty of it over SOAP is that you don't really need a framework, I use Spring MVC but I set it up to the barebones because much of it is not needed.