The Difference Between REST and SOAP APIs
This overview will help you understand the differences between REST and SOAP APIs, and how they are used in integrations. The words "web services" mean many things to people with different fields. For general users, it is about using online services, like surfing the internet, but for developers and webmasters, it has different meanings. Overall it is a broad term that tells us how the communication between two different set of devices or applications held over the World Wide Web (WWW). This communication system can be categorized into two types, namely Simple Object Access Protocol or SOAP, and Representational State Transfer or REST. Quite often both are considered to be the terms with same meanings but the how both works and what tools both use for communication purposes creates the fine line between two. Before highlighting the differences between two, it merits to discuss what both actually are. What Is a REST API? REST is basically an architectural style of the web serv...