What is RESTful Web Services?
- REST stand for REpresentational State Transfer.
- REST is not a protocol.
- It is an architectural style.
Advantages of RESTful Web Services.
- Fast: RESTful Web Services are fast because there is no strict specification like SOAP. It consumes less bandwidth and resource.
- Language and Platform independent: RESTful web services can be written in any programming language and executed in any platform.
- Can use SOAP: RESTful web services can use SOAP web services as the implementation.
- Permits different data format: RESTful web service permits different data format such as Plain Text, HTML, XML and JSON.
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