Microservices

SOAP vs RESTful Microservices

In this article, we will discuss some points that provide the difference between SOAP versus RESTful microservices. Before this article, we have discussed the Software architecture patterns and design, and also we have discussed how to decompose an application to the Microservices architecture based application.

Let’s start this article with the following diagram, that provides a lot of description about the differences:

SOAP vs RESTful Microservices

The preceding diagram explains that SOA service based applications are compromised of more loosely coupled components that use an Enterprise Services Bus (ESB) messaging protocol to communicate between themselves.

But the Microservices based applications are a number of independent application services delivering one single functionality in a loosely connected and self-contained fashion, communicating through light-weight messaging protocols such as HTTP REST or Thrift API.

SOAP versus RESTful microservices

SOAP and RESTful microservices have the following differences:

SOAPRESTful microservices
An XML-based message protocol.An architectural style.
Uses WSDL for communication between the consumer and the provider.Use XML or JSON to send and receive data.
Invokes services by calling the RPC method.Simply call services via the URL path.
The transfer is over HTTP. Also uses other protocols, such as SMTP or FTP.The transfer is over HTTP only.
SOAP-based reads can’t be cached.RESTful microservice reads can be cached.
SOAP is not very scalable.RESTful microservices are very scalable.
SOAP is more suitable for enterprise systems and high-security systems, such as a banking system.RESTful microservices are suitable for all types of systems apart from where high
security and high reliability is critical.
Doesn’t support error handling.Has built-in error handling.
Uses service interfaces to expose the business
logic.
Uses URI to expose business logic.

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Dinesh Rajput

Dinesh Rajput is the chief editor of a website Dineshonjava, a technical blog dedicated to the Spring and Java technologies. It has a series of articles related to Java technologies. Dinesh has been a Spring enthusiast since 2008 and is a Pivotal Certified Spring Professional, an author of a book Spring 5 Design Pattern, and a blogger. He has more than 10 years of experience with different aspects of Spring and Java design and development. His core expertise lies in the latest version of Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring Security, creating REST APIs, Microservice Architecture, Reactive Pattern, Spring AOP, Design Patterns, Struts, Hibernate, Web Services, Spring Batch, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Web Application Design and Architecture. He is currently working as a technology manager at a leading product and web development company. He worked as a developer and tech lead at the Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd and was the first developer in his previous company, Paytm. Dinesh is passionate about the latest Java technologies and loves to write technical blogs related to it. He is a very active member of the Java and Spring community on different forums. When it comes to the Spring Framework and Java, Dinesh tops the list!

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