SOAP_VS_REST

Sr. No.	SOAP(Simple object access protocol)	REST(Representational State Transfer)
1	Soap is protocol	REST is architectural style
2	Function driven.	Data driven.
	To login, add/delete data we have different services	Login add/delete can be done in single service
3	Use WSDL(Web Service Description Language) as contract.	WADL(Web Application Description Language)
4	Stateful.	Stateless.
	Server maintenance the state of every client request as apart of session.	Server does not maintain the state of every client request.State is transferred by client to server as part of every request.
5	Heavy weight. As depends on XML markup	Light weight.
6	Supports different web protocols like HTTP,TCP,SMTP	Support only HTTP
7	Support only XML format	Support XML,JSON,TEXT,YAML formats
8	Distributed.Communication through multiple endpoints.	Point to point communication.
9	SOAP has successful/retry logic built in	clients to deal with communication failures by retrying
10	Strongly typed language.	Not strongly typed.