Reputation: 1844
I am new to J2EE. I found that Spring MVC could also perform the same tasks as REST. What is the main difference.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 5557
Reputation: 6686
Spring MVC is a framework which allows you to create RESTful Web sites and application whereas Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture style consisting of guidelines and best practices for creating scalable web services
Upvotes: 2
Reputation: 1680
Spring is a framework (Struts, Spring, ...) Rest is a message architecture
Upvotes: 2