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javaguy
javaguy

Reputation: 4442

What is the difference between a Rest WS and Servlet

How do they differ in action? Servlet print html only?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1749

Answers (2)

Asraful
Asraful

Reputation: 1290

Servlet :

--is a web component

--it's a powerful java technology

--managed by a container (namely web server such as tomcat) that generates dynamic content

--platform independent java classes (byte code)

--interacts with web clients as request response paradigm

--Request handling methods 

  ****doGet,doPost,doDelete,doPut,doOptions,doHead,doTrace****

Rest WS (Representational State Transfer Web Service)

--A way to achieving service oriented architecture in web application

--it's an architectural concept

--web service resource is uniquely identifiable using URLS

--it has explicit relationship with HTTP methods namely GET,POST,PUT,DELETE

--highly re useable across the platform

Upvotes: 6

Shiraz Bhaiji
Shiraz Bhaiji

Reputation: 65471

A Rest WS is a service which you call, which returns data in a REST format.

A Servlet is a bit of UI that shows information to the user.

They are very different, although a Servlet could get the information that it displays from a Rest web service.

Upvotes: 1

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