How can I build simple secure web service with Java?

SOAP over SSL, possibly using WS-Security to ensure identity (or alternatively using a servlet filter to do authentication based on credentials in the HTTP headers), does that quite nicely.

Maybe REST with https. Take a look at Jersey and the Jersey User Guide. REST also offers 'native' support for different response representations.

No need to wrap them inside XML.

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