![]() ![]() For development of web services in general I am not so sure. ![]() Or if you do a search on "restful service", "soap service", and "wcf service" it actually shows WCF taking over in 2008 with a gradual uptick for REST.įor API's REST makes sense because they are portable, simple to use, scalable, and easy to integrate with. If I do a Google Insights search on "rest web service", "soap web service", and "wcf web service" you get much different results, showing them actually converging. Although SOAP is under the hood there is little need to discuss the plumbing as WCF hides a lot of the internals. For developers on Microsoft platforms developing internal projects the term used today is not SOAP, it is Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Is the thesis specifically on the use of publicly exposed API's or is it on web service development in general? If it is web services in general I am less certain. This does show a trend towards REST for publicly exposed API's. The original source of this information is here. Probably what is more concrete in this blog post is the graph showing out of 2,000 API's the trend from 2008 to 2010 was to move to REST. This same Google Insights search was shown in the blog post " REST in peace, SOAP". But I would be careful with this data in drawing strong conclusions. ![]() The Google Insights graph shown by is very interesting and I think I understand what he is trying to show in his thesis. Until that time it was just something that could be used on Microsoft platforms. I would argue that until it became a general standard it could not be considered by the whole development community as something viable for developing web services for a heterogeneous environment, which was one of the big promises of web services and SOA. But it was not given to the W3C to become a standard until May of of 2000 and was not made a Recommendation until 2003. SOAP version 1.0 was actually introduced by Microsoft in December of 1999, so the two technologies are close on when they were defined. It was just a gradual transition to what worked best for developers needs. So there is probably not a certain milestone or event in history that caused this transition from SOAP to REST. The simplicity of REST seems to make it more popular and the fact that it adheres to basic HTTP principles makes it much more portable across heterogeneous platforms. But then developers found that SOAP was bloated and overly complex for developing web services/API's and that REST served their needs just fine. So technically REST was defined before SOAP, but SOAP was very popular method for some time for developing web services and in the beginning more popular than REST. SOAP became a W3C Recommendation in June of 2003. REST described a web architecture that was not specific to web API's, but has become very popular now as a method for developing web API's. The term Representational state transfer (REST) was introduced in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation. ![]() event in the recent past.ĭo you get my point of view ? I know that could be quite unique approach to the topic, but i would like to explain of this soap and rest swap.ĭoes anyone have any idea? I know that is different approach to the topic of soap and rest apis but maybe someone knows how 'bite' the topic ) So, i would like to rely on some sources (of coures I do not have them) or events/facts why this intersection may occured. I would like to show you a graph in Google Insights for Search Tool :Īs you can see in 2008 there was some king of intersection number of keywords searche for rest api and soap api. Thank you for this important information, but i mean something else. and I have one chapter where i compare REST and SOAP, but I can not find how and when (i mean some king of events in the past) REST started (mainly in Web) to replace SOAP as technology of web services. I am currently writing my thesis about IT technologies etc. ![]()
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