If you have servlets why do you need rest web service in java

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How is Rest WS different form regular Servlets , What additional features do REST provide

also [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14314658/difference-between-restful-webservice-and-httpservlet) — Ankur Singhal, Jul 24 '15 at 09:38
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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 10:33

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architecture style for building scalable web services.

A servlet is a small Java program that runs within a Web server. Servlets receive and respond to requests from Web clients, usually across HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol.

If you have servlets why do you need rest web service in java

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