Tutorial by Examples

REpresentational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style used for web development, introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding. See it on wiki : REST wiki It's based on HTTP protocol (HTTP on Wiki), HTTP requests (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE...) / responses codes (404, 400, 200, 201, 500.....

SOAP (Simple Access Object Protocol) is XML based, like XML-RPC, is ancestor, with file called WSDL, what describe the method to be exposed. This protocol is often based with SOAP-Enveloppe, a SOAP-Body, and alternatively SOAP-Header, the data is envelopped in a structure and be interpreted as the ...