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SOAP v/s REST protocol ?

SOAP v/s REST protocol ?

Ravi Shekhar Vishwakarma

11yAsked Oct 30, 2015, 5:24 PM1.6k

What are differences between SOAP and REST protocol and which is best in terms of advance technology.

i am not getting such article in C# corner . PLZ if any link ,provide me with extra knowledge.

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Maruthi Palllamalli10y ago
SOAP is a protocol to provide communication between your service to applications.
Where REST is not a protocol, Is a prototype to provide services to your applications.

REST is very light weight than SOAP.

In short REST didnt have any WSDL.

Application -------SOAP(wsdl)--------WEBSERVICES

Application -----REST(no wsdl) ----- WEBSERVICES

REST will access only HTTP protocol. But SOAP allows more.
Priyaranjan K S11y ago
Hi Ravi,

Unless you have a definitive reason to use SOAP use REST .

More Info :
http://www.javatpoint.com/soap-vs-rest-web-services
http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/understanding-soap-and-rest-basics/
http://spf13.com/post/soap-vs-rest

Thanks,
Priyan

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Praveen Dhatrika11y ago
Soap is basically Web Services and WCF, where as Rest based is Web Api.

It depends on working environment, on which based protocol is being used. Its usually now most of the business they are actually looking for Web API(REST) as its easy to maintain and they are lighter and its simple, and also its secured with Authentication same as Soap based.