Comparison of REST with SOAP

Representational State Transfer (REST) technique

A web service is a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images), and creating web applications services,  which serve in solving specific domain problems over the Web. Representational state transfer (REST) is a new  web service architecture.

Please write an essay no less than about the “Comparison of REST with SOAP”.

The essay needs to cover all three following aspects:

Discuss what is representational state transfer (REST) technique

Discuss testing and verification techniques of REST

Provide and evaluate applications of REST and compare with SOAP.

Intended learning outcomes (ILOs)

1.      Understand SOAP and REST web service types, architectures, and languages.

2.      Understand the difference between web services and APIs

3.      Understand REST that can be used for creating web services

4.      Evaluate web service REST and SOAP techniques

Discipline-specific skills

1.      Use software to create web services

2.      Show an awareness of the explanations of web services

3.      Carry out basic web services deployment

1.      Work independently with time management, self-monitoring of one’s own progress, setting realistic targets and modifying those targets as necessary

2.      Carry out research using online and technical literature

3.      Demonstrate a basic understanding of advanced internet technology

4.        Rubrics

Handed out: 15-Oct-2020 at 11:59 am

Deadline: 30-Oct-2020 at 11:59 am

This assignment counts 40% of the total CW mark. All CW marks are worth 40% and exam mark is worth 60% of the final mark.

That is, this assignment is worth 16% of the module’s mark.

This assignment is an individual piece of work.

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