Is JAX-RS built on top of Servlet API? How?

Question

I\'ve been reading that the JAX-RS is built on top of servlets. Is this literally true, or it just mean that it is a higher level component? If it is, how does that work? Does J

Answer 1

This is the official documentation of Jboss Resteasy.

RESTeasy is implemented as a ServletContextListener and a Servlet and deployed within a WAR file.

JAX-RS implementations do use ServletAPI for routing and parsing the requests. It is implementation detail and need not be mentioned in the specification.