REST is an architectural style and set of architectural principles and technically speaking, REST is a web service architecture, even though most people think of SOAP as web services.

There are perceptions afoot of a Web services war pitting SOAP-based WS-* services against REST services. But an official at Microsoft, which has spearheaded development of WS-* specifications ...

It's about half a page scroll down. Please follow some of the suggested links on annotation driven SOAP web services, JAX-WS web service enhancements in Java EE, top-down and bottom up web service ...

Enterprises have probably heard of REST before. Companies may even have experience with building RESTful services. But what many may not have considered is how REST can help create web and mobile ...

SOAP is out, REST is in when it comes to the protocols being deployed as part of SOA. When asked to indicate their past, present, and estimated future use of SOAP-based Web services vs. REST-based ...

Choose both? It is possible with many modern frameworks to deploy a service with both JSON and XML endpoints. It’s somewhat difficult, but not impossible, to be RESTful and SOAP-y at the same time.

RESTful Web services made easy Learn the basics about RESTful web services in this quick tip. You can create a RESTful Web service using nothing more than the JDK, a simple text editor and Tomcat 7.