Web services are generally divided into two categories:
- RESTful services
- SOAP services
The difference between the two categories may appear confusing at first sight. However, we will try to clarify the differences.
RESTful versus SOAP services
SOAP services
SOAP is a standard communication protocol for exchanging structured messages between computer systems in the XML-based message format. It stands for Simple Object Access Protocol and defines a set of rules associated with messages being sent from one system to another, and a response message is received by this other system. Some key concepts are associated with SOAP services; WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is a standard way of defining a directory of SOAP...
