Monday, June 3, 2013

Exposing APIs with REST versus SOAP.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. SOAP is Simple object access protocol.

SOAP invokes methods on objects. REST uses a set of well known methods on http and the target of these methods are called resources. By their nature these requests are stateless.

SOAP requires tools to inspect the message. REST can be intercepted by web proxy and displayed with browser and add-on.

SOAP methods require declarative address, binding and contract. REST is URI based and has qualifiers for resources.


 

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