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Topic
What are the similarities and differences between RESTful WebService and soap WebService?
Answer
- Soap is a protocol, and rest is actually an architectural principle of an Internet software, not a protocol. It is more like an interpretation of the HTTP protocol's design intent.
- SOAP has evolved to the present, relative to rest, has a considerable degree of maturity.
- The SOAP WebService has a uniform specification for the message body, the message first class content, and the generality is relatively stronger. and restful Webserivce is actually just a design principle, there is no unified norm, each website design each has the different, varies from person to person.
- RESTful WebService are better at ease of use and efficiency than soap Webserivce. It takes advantage of the design concept of HTTP protocol and integrates the front-end technology of Web2.0 to improve the development efficiency.
- From a security standpoint, soap already has a complete set of security specifications for security control, and rest is virtually free of any security specifications and needs to be handled by the user themselves.
- For soap WebService, because of its RPC-oriented design, it is very easy for developers to accept. and restful WebService, because of the need for resource-oriented design, won't be also difficult to reverse its design thinking, in addition, some of the more complex situations are difficult to completely follow the rest style design.
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