COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SOAP AND REST APIs: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION WITH PYTHON
Enes BAJRAMI, Agon MEMETI, Florim IDRIZI, Ermira MEMETI
Abstract
In this paper, further information regarding two of the most popular web service architectures, which are Representational State Transfer (REST) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), is presented. For this, we adopted the PRISMA strategy which helped in identifying studies relevant to the chosen questions. In order to conduct the analysis of REST and SOAP, we formulated three such questions. After applying the other inclusion criteria and completion of scoring with the use of PRISMA flow chart, twelve studies were identified which met the inclusion criteria. In the process of analysis and interpretation of the selected literature, we examined many aspects of REST and SOAP relative to their performance, scalability and interoperability. Therefore, it should be understood that the goal of this particular work will be to help further this particular discussion on how likely such web service technologies will prove to be in practice. We also performed a local experiment comparing the SOAP and REST APIs in terms of performance, and thus providing additional experimental data about these technologies concerning response time and system behavior under controlled conditions.
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228 - 243