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What is REST service and how it is different from web service. thanks

Thomas
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer – Quentin Apr 21 '11 at 08:53
  • possible duplicate of [Difference between REST and WebServices](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1443160/difference-between-rest-and-webservices) – Fortega Apr 21 '11 at 08:56

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In a nutshell, a REST service is focussed around resources. A SOAP service is typically focussed around operations.

Note that both REST and SOAP services are considered to be web services if they are operating over HTTP, even though different protocols are used.

See here for more info.

Tim Rogers
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You probably want to compare a RESTful web service with other web services. Check the link...

Fortega
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Infact you cannot compare between REST & Web Service, as Web service/ WCF service makes use of REST. For details please check below links

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/index-137171.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Ravi Vanapalli
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It's a way of designing a web service.

Representational State Transfer

Diarmaid
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it was asked before... Difference between REST and WebServices

another one.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-restful/

Community
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AnarchistGeek
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http://www.xfront.com/REST-Web-Services.html

http://www.ajaxonomy.com/2008/xml/web-services-part-1-soap-vs-rest

Saurabh
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