rest VS servlet

Compare rest vs servlet and see what are their differences.

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rest servlet
3 1
341 241
2.9% 5.8%
8.2 8.8
28 days ago 22 days ago
Java Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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rest

Posts with mentions or reviews of rest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.
  • What to learn to become a Java developer
    1 project | /r/java | 31 Dec 2022
    There are very few frameworks that I would personally recommend: the Servlet API and JAX-RS are pretty much the only ones I consider decent. I personally avoid JAX-RS because of https://github.com/jakartaee/rest/issues/468 and because you can replace most of its functionality using ~5-10 custom classes.
  • Jakarta EE 10 released!
    4 projects | /r/programming | 22 Sep 2022
    Have you never used the Servlet API? JPA? Those validation annotations from the javax.validation package? JAX-RS to define REST Endpoints? CDI for dependency injection?
  • Libraries other than Spring Boot for creating web APIs
    8 projects | /r/java | 28 Jun 2022
    Take a look at https://github.com/jakartaee/rest/issues/468

servlet

Posts with mentions or reviews of servlet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-22.
  • Jakarta EE 10 released!
    4 projects | /r/programming | 22 Sep 2022
    Have you never used the Servlet API? JPA? Those validation annotations from the javax.validation package? JAX-RS to define REST Endpoints? CDI for dependency injection?

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rest and servlet you can also consider the following projects:

persistence

validation - Jakarta Validation

avaje-jex - Web routing for Jetty, Grizzly, JDK Http server

RESTEasy - An Implementation of the Jakarta RESTful Web Services Specification

test-driven-learning - Learning tests

Grails - The Grails Web Application Framework

Netty - Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework