What are the disadvantages of RESTful Web Services over SOAP Web Services?

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Abdul Moiz
19-November-2014

Web Services REST Spring J2EE Java

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Date Posted: 2014/07/25

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by Yatesh Chauhan , Java Developer , Prutech Solution

Rest can work on only HTTP protocol only.

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by Jehangir Wahid , Lead Software Developer , Inaequo Solutions

REST is a lightweight architecture but it is not suitable to handle a complex environment, which is handled by SOAP usually.

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by Dan Nemes , Software developer , CGS Europe

- there is no common standard accepted yet for the formal REST service description

- REST requests (especially GET) are not suitable for large amount of data

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