Differences between SOAP and RESTful web services
Difference between Rest and Soap
SOAP
- SOAP is a protocol.
- SOAP stands for Simple Object Access Protocol.
- SOAP can’t use REST because it is a protocol.
- SOAP uses services interfaces to expose the business logic.
- SOAP defines standards to be strictly followed.
- SOAP requires more bandwidth and resource than REST.
- SOAP defines its own security.
- SOAP permits XML data format only.
- SOAP is less preferred than REST.
REST
- REST is an architectural style.
- REST stands for Representational State Transfer.
- REST can use SOAP web services because it is a concept and can use any protocol like HTTP, SOAP.
- REST uses URI to expose business logic.
- REST does not define too much standards like SOAP.
- REST requires less bandwidth and resource than SOAP.
- RESTful web services inherit security measures from the underlying transport.
- REST permits different data format such as Plain text, HTML, XML, JSON etc.
- REST more preferred than SOAP.