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Does anyone have links to documentation or guides on making the decision between REST vs. SOAP? I understand both of these but am looking for some references on the key decision points, eg, security, which may make you lean towards one or the other.
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A general rule of thumb when you're deciding between SOAP and REST for building your API: if you want standardization and enhanced security, use SOAP. If you want flexibility and efficiency, use REST.
Both SOAP and RESTful architectures have proven themselves to be reliable, successful and capable of scaling infinitely, so the decision to use REST or SOAP has less to do with their efficacy and more to do with how either approach fits in with an organization's software development culture and project needs.
SOAP provides the following advantages when compared to REST: Language, platform, and transport independent (REST requires use of HTTP) Works well in distributed enterprise environments (REST assumes direct point-to-point communication) Standardized.
Google first hit seems pretty comprehensive.
I think the problem here is there are too many advocates of one or the other, may be better of googling and getting more of a handle of the pro's/con's yourself and making your own decision.
I know that sounds kinda lame, but ultimately these sort of design decisions fall down to the developer/architect working on it, and 99% of the time, the problem domain will be the deciding factor (or at least it should be), not a guide on the net.
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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) standard an XML language defining a message architecture and message formats, is used by Web services it contain a description of the operations. WSDL is an XML-based language for describing Web services and how to access them. will run on SMTP,HTTP,FTP etc. Requires middleware support, well defined mechanisam to define services like WSDL+XSD, WS-Policy SOAP will return XML based data SOAP provide standards for security and reliability
Representational State Transfer (RESTful) web services. they are second generation Web Services. RESTful web services, communicate via HTTP than SOAP-based services and do not require XML messages or WSDL service-API definitions. for REST no middleware is required only HTTP support is needed.WADL Standard, REST can return XML, plain text, JSON, HTML etc
t is easier for many types of clients to consume RESTful web services while enabling the server side to evolve and scale. Clients can choose to consume some or all aspects of the service and mash it up with other web-based services.
REST uses standard HTTP so it is simplerto creating clients, developing APIs
REST permits many different data formats like XML, plain text, JSON, HTML where as SOAP only permits XML.
REST has better performance and scalability.
Rest and can be cached and SOAP can't
Built-in error handling where SOAP has No error handling
REST is particularly useful PDA and other mobile devices.
REST is services are easy to integrate with existing websites.
SOAP has set of protocols, which provide standards for security and reliability, among other things, and interoperate with other WS conforming clients and servers. SOAP Web services (such as JAX-WS) are useful in handling asynchronous processing and invocation.
For Complex API's SOAP will be more usefull.
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