can i create java servlet as rest web service

Can I use Java Servlet as a Re开发者_如何学JAVAst web service? And how to request using curl to servlet?

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Sure you can use a (raw) servlet to create a REST service. But that is too much work knowing that there exists a standard API for this (JAX-RS JSR-311) and many frameworks implementing it :

http://www.jboss.org/resteasy
http://cxf.apache.org/docs/jax-rs.html
http://jersey.java.net/