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Why would one use REST instead of SOAP based services? [closed] Ask Question

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Why would one use REST instead of SOAP based services? [closed] Ask Question

Attended an interesting demo on REST today, however, I couldn't think of a single reason (nor was one presented) why REST is in anyway better or simpler to use and implement than a SOAP based Services stack.

What are some of the reasons Why anyone in the "real world" use REST instead of the SOAP based Services?

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Less overhead (no SOAP envelope to wrap every call in)

Less duplication (HTTP already represents operations like DELETE, PUT, GET, etc. that have to otherwise be represented in a SOAP envelope).

More standardized - HTTP operations are well understood and operate consistently. Some SOAP implementations can get finicky.

More human readable and testable (harder to test SOAP with just a browser).

Don't need to use XML (well you kind of don't have to for SOAP either but it hardly makes sense since you're already doing parsing of the envelope).

Libraries have made SOAP (kind of) easy. But you are abstracting away a lot of redundancy underneath as I have noted. yes in theory SOAP can go over other transports so as to avoid riding atop a layer doing similar things, but in reality just about all SOAP work you'll ever do is over HTTP.

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