Review of Web Service Technologies: REST over SOAP

Abstract

Recently, most of the web applications depend on the web services to solve the application integration problem. Web service is an intermediate software that allows the interaction between the applications written by different languages. Web Service is a client-server, modular, self-contained, and dynamic application that ensures the communication between the applications via the World Wide Web (WWW). The aim of this paper is to choice right kind of Web services at design stage of the project. Thus, we provide an overview of web services. Next, we clarify the architecture of web services. After that, we focus on the most popular kinds of web services, the Representational State Transfer (REST) and the Simple Object Access Protocol(SOAP) then explain APIs details. Finally, we address the performance evaluation of the previous works and explained the results as comparison between SOAP and REST. A recommendation to use RESTful web services has been concluded from experimental result.