SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer) are two common architectural styles used in web services. SOAP and REST are both ways to build distributed systems, but their approaches and design ideas are different.
SOAP uses a protocol that sends data in XML (Extensible Markup Language) messages, which is what the name suggests. It uses the XML Schema Definition (XSD) to define how the messages are put together and how they look.
On the other hand, REST is a style of architecture that puts an emphasis on being simple, scalable, and not having a state. RESTful APIs are resource-based, which means that each resource has its own unique URI (Uniform Resource Identifier). Most of the time, REST doesn’t use XML to represent and send data.
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