REST winning over SOAP
REST (Representation State Transfer) has been a buzz term in web services world for more than a couple of years now..We are seeing a strong shift to the REST arena from SOAP recently..
SOAP adds a layer on top of HTTP making the developer’s job a little more tedious.. You have to use tools to marshall/unmarshall the data according to the protocol..
Who would want to do it if there is an easier alternative? Yes, REST is the easier alternative. (talking in pure technical terms REST is just an architecture which could be implemented using HTTP or SOAP). But recently, REST has evolved into a name that marks web services using just HTTP.
We have seen big players like Yahoo, Amazon, Google providing REST APIs. Now, we are clearly seeing a shift from developer focus as well. The study done by Amazon shows that 85% of developers preferred REST over their equivalent SOAP apis. Details: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3005.
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