# What is the servlet (and/or its mappings) flowable-rest dependencies of flowable rest api

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**Category:** Flowable Engine\
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/what-is-the-servlet-and-or-its-mappings-flowable-rest-dependencies-of-flowable-rest-api/2008 "2018-05-10T11:31:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![sharmavishal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@sharmavishal](https://forum.flowable.org/u/sharmavishal)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2018, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/what-is-the-servlet-and-or-its-mappings-flowable-rest-dependencies-of-flowable-rest-api/2008/1 "2018-05-10T11:31:49Z")

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Hi

I want to use the flowable rest API in my web project and in the docs its is written that “Flowable includes a REST API to the Flowable engine that can be installed by deploying the flowable-rest.war file to a servlet container like Apache Tomcat. However, it can also be used in another web-application by including the servlet (and/or its mappings) in your application and add all flowable-rest dependencies to the classpath.”  
But I am not finding the name of the servlet and the class of the servlet to use in the mapping.

How would I map the Flowable REST Servlet ? I am using the spring web dynamic project.

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**Author:** ![bdot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@bdot](https://forum.flowable.org/u/bdot)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.flowable.org/t/what-is-the-servlet-and-or-its-mappings-flowable-rest-dependencies-of-flowable-rest-api/2008/2 "2018-05-17T13:41:43Z")

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You can use Flowable in

1. Standalone version : where you deploy flowable-rest.war to tomcat. Once deployed you should be able to access it using http://:/flowable-rest/service/  
Ex:

```auto
curl -vvv --user username:password http://localhost:8080/flowable-rest/service/repository/process-definitions

```

More information on Rest API can be found @ [https://www.flowable.org/docs/userguide/index.html#restApiChapter](https://www.flowable.org/docs/userguide/index.html#restApiChapter)

1. Embedded version: You can embed flowable in your existing spring project. Most of the examples given are related to Sprint Boot. One can be found @ [https://github.com/flowable/flowable-examples/tree/master/spring-boot-example](https://github.com/flowable/flowable-examples/tree/master/spring-boot-example)

Hope this helps!