Rest vs SOAP: The Key Differences You Need To Know

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December 1st 2020Resources 5 min read SOAP is an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol, but most importantly it is first and foremost a standardised messaging protocol.

“At the same time, SOAP APIs are language, platform, and transport independent, and support both stateful and stateless operations.

RESTful API design uses the existing HTTP protocol to represent different requests based on what HTTP method is used.

Because of this fluidity, it is easier to build simple rest APIs, especially when engineers chose to use JSON as their data format.”

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