Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

When to use REST versus SOAP

REST is superior to SOAP in many respects, including the following:

• Developing a public API: REST, which is famous for ROA, invariably focuses on resource-based or data-based operations. Its core operations (GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE) are inherited from the ubiquitous HTTP. This minimalist approach makes the REST paradigm easy to understand and use across application and industry domains. Application and service developers find it easy to play around with the RESTful approach. The response gets easily consumed by web browsers. Precisely speaking, the simplicity innately provided by REST is one of the key reasons for its unprecedented support and success. Realizing its potential, there is a consistent transition ...