How Spring rest services are handled internally

Question

I am building rest services in Spring. If I am not wrong, web services are servlets i.e. internally they get converted into servlet.

So, just wondering, does all service methods(methods annotated with @RequestMapping) gets converted into separate servlet?

Also, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14015642/how-does-the-dispatcherservlet-resolver-and-controllers-interact — Sotirios Delimanolis, Jan 04 '16 at 06:43

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '16 at 06:36

Actually nothing's converted into Servlet.

Spring brings its own DispatcherServlet - which maps to "everything below" a given path.

All @Controllers will be invoked by that DispatchServlet and not directly by the servlet engine (like tomcat or jetty). So theres no need to convert to servlet.

How Spring rest services are handled internally

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