SOAPvs.REST
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The document compares REST and SOAP, arguing that REST should generally be considered over SOAP. It notes that REST excels over SOAP in terms of API flexibility and simplicity, lower bandwidth usage, security, performance and scalability, support for various data formats, and popularity among major web services. Only in rare cases where requirements are not met should SOAP be considered over REST.
SOAPvs.REST
- 1. EEDC Home work2 SOAP vs. RE ST Faik Aras T arhan
- 2. General Idea 0 REST should be considered as the Cirst alternative while choosing between REST and SOAP. 0 If REST does not fulCill the requirements ( which is really rare), then we should come up with SOAP.
- 3. Why? 0 REST excels SOAP in terms of: 0 API Flexibility & Simplicity 0 Bandwidth Usage 0 Security 0 Performance & Scalability 0 Popularity 0 Variety of Data Formats
- 4. API Flexibility & Simplicity 0 Accessibility to a Web server via an URI 0 Service is called easily with an HTTP GET command 0 The resulting HTTP response might be simple as well
- 5. Bandwidth Usage 0 REST is lighter 0 SOAP requires an XML wrapper around every request and response 0 SOAP response could require more than 10 times as many bytes as would the same response in REST
- 6. Security 0 REST calls also go over HTTP or HTTPS like SOAP 0 With REST Cirewall can recognize the intent of each message by analyzing the HTTP command used in the request 0 For example, a GET request can always be considered safe because it can’t modify but query data
- 7. Performance & Scalability 0 Typical actions performed by REST based services include generic CRUD operations that do not require state and proxy servers can cache their response very easily. Thus, we reach: 0 Better response and loading time 0 Decreased load on the server 0 Better user experience 0 On the other hand, SOAP requests use POST and require a complex XML request to be created which makes response-‐caching difCicult
- 8. Variety of Data Formats 0 REST permits many different data formats where as SOAP only permits XML 0 SON usually is a better Cit for data and parses much faster 0 REST allows better support for browser clients due to it’s support for JSON
- 9. Popularity 0 All of the major web services on the Internet now use REST 0 All of Yahoo's web services use REST, including Flickr, del.icio.us 0 Google used to provide only SOAP for all their services, but in 2006 they deprecated in favor of REST source 0 Both eBay, and Amazon have web services for both REST and SOAP