SOAP or REST for Web Services? [closed]

Answer 1

Don't overlook XML-RPC. If you're just after a lightweight solution then there's a great deal to be said for a protocol that can be defined in a couple of pages of text and implemented in a minimal amount of code. XML-RPC has been around for years but went out of fashion for a while - but the minimalist appeal seems to be giving it something of a revival of late.

Answer 2

SOAP embodies a service-oriented approach to Web services — one in which methods (or verbs) are the primary way you interact with the service. REST takes a resource-oriented approach in which the object (or the noun) takes center stage.

Answer 3

One quick point - transmission protocol and orchestration;

I use SOAP over TCP for speed, reliability and security reasons, including orchestrated machine to machine services (ESB) and to external services. Change the service definition, the orchestration raises an error from the WSDL change and its immediately obvious and can be rebuilt/deployed.

Not sure you can do the same with REST - I await being corrected or course! With REST, change the service definition - nothing knows about it until it returns 400 (or whatever).

Answer 4

1.From my experience. I would say REST gives you option to access the URL which is already built. eg-> a word search in google. That URL could be used as webservice for REST. In SOAP, you can create your own web service and access it through SOAP client.

2. REST supports text,JSON,XML format. Hence more versatile for communicating between two applications. While SOAP supports only XML format for message communication.

Answer 5

If you are looking for interoperability between different systems and languages, I would definately go for REST. I've had a lot of problems trying to get SOAP working between .NET and Java, for example.

Answer 6

i create a benchmark for find which of them are faster! i see this result:

for 1000 requests :

• REST took 3 second
• SOAP took 7 second

for 10,000 requests :

• REST took 33 second
• SOAP took 69 second

for 1,000,000 requests :

• REST took 62 second
• SOAP took 114 second