{"id":4198,"date":"2022-04-22T11:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2022-04-22T11:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T11:14:42","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-soap-and-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/interview-questions\/web-designing\/what-is-the-difference-between-soap-and-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between SOAP and REST ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is a protocol.<\/td>\nIt is an architectural style.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SOAP- Simple Object Access Protocol.<\/td>\nREST- Representational State Transfer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It can\u2019t use REST because it is a protocol.<\/td>\nIt can use SOAP because it is a concept and can use any protocol like HTTP, SOAP.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It uses service interfaces to expose the business logic.<\/td>\nIt uses URI to expose business logic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JAX-WS is the java API For SOAP web services.<\/td>\nJAX-RS is the java API For RESTful web services.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It defines standards to be strictly followed.<\/td>\nIt does not define too many standards like SOAP.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It defines its own security.<\/td>\nREST web services inherit security measures form the underlying transport.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It is less preferred than REST.<\/td>\nIt is more preferred than SOAP.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It requires more resource and bandwidth than REST<\/td>\nIt requires less resource and bandwidth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
It permits XML data format only.<\/td>\nIt permits different data formats such as HTML, XML, Plain text, JSON, etc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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