Difference between RESTful and Soap Web Services?
RESTfull API
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SOAP Web Services API
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"REST" stands for Representational State Transfer.
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SOAP stands for Simple Object Access
Protocol.
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REST API is not a protocol and it
does not follow W3C standards.
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SOAP is a protocol which follows W3C
standards.
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REST is an architecture. It is
lightweight.
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SOAP is a protocol.
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In REST service, we will use standard
HTTP methods to access the resources which are GET, POST, DELETE, PUT.
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SOAP has a set of standards to send
messages. SOAP uses a set of standards like Header, Protocol. Due to this
performance issues may come.
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