Difference between Rest and Soap
Rest Soap Rest Stands For Representational State Protocol Soap Stands for Simple Object Access Protocol Rest Used for Light Weight Applications Soap Used For Heavy Weight Applications Rest Support Html,Json,Xml Format Soap Only Support Xml Format Rest Is More Preferred than Soap Soap is Less Preferred than Rest Rest requires Less Bandwidth Soap Requires more bandwidth Compared to Rest Transfer Using HTTP Only Transfer Using Http,SMTP,FTp Return Human Readable Format Does not Return Human Readable Format It is Light Weight so We use on Mobiles If we had Large number of data we use SOAP