The document discusses the differences between REST and SOAP architectures. REST focuses on accessing named resources through a consistent HTTP interface, uses standard HTTP, supports multiple data formats, and has better performance and scalability. In contrast, SOAP brings its own protocol, exposes application logic through different interfaces, only supports XML format, and has poorer performance. Many large companies now use REST over SOAP for their web services.

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Ziwei Chen

2.  … when you are exposing a public API over
the internet to handle CRUD operations on
data.
 … focused on accessing named resources
through a single consistent interface.

3.  … brings it’s own protocol and exposes
pieces of application logic (not data) as
services.
 … exposes operations.
 … focused on accessing named operations,
each implement some business logic through
different interfaces.

4.  … uses standard HTTP which is much simpler
in just about ever way.
 … permits many different data formats where
as SOAP only permits XML.
 … better performance and scalability.

5.  Limited bandwidth and resources
 Totally stateless operations
 Caching situations

6.  Yahoo uses REST for all their services
including Flickr and del.ici.ous.
 Amazon and Ebay provide both though
Amazon’s internal usage is nearly all
REST source.
 Google used to provide only SOAP for all their
services, but in 2006 they deprecated in favor
of REST source.