Master Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud - SOAP Versus RESTful Web Services

The video tutorial explores the differences between SOAP and REST. SOAP is a protocol using XML for data exchange, while REST is an architectural style that supports multiple formats like JSON and XML. SOAP requires a WSDL for service definitions, whereas REST can use Swagger but doesn't mandate a standard. SOAP can use various transport protocols, while REST is optimized for HTTP. RESTful services are generally easier to implement due to their flexibility and JSON usage. The tutorial concludes with a summary of these differences.

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