this is the web service module for droids-crawler. as a JEE project, it is expected to be deployed to any JEE web container. It also support Google App Engine (and is actually designed for GAE for its unlimited scalability) Notice that the test cases in this module may depend on a deployed web services. i.e. the test case makes HTTP connection to the deployed service to perform testing. For GAE deployment: 1. update the YOUR_APP_ID in /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml, and execute the corresponding GAE deployment command. 2. update the YOUR_APP_ID in /src/test/resources/test-*.xml and deployment path for executing test cases.