Comparative Study between Web Services Technologies: REST and WSDL

The field of web services became one of the hottest points of discussion during the last decade, along with the evolving web technology. The possibility of having diverse systems connected to each other has been enormously and successfully achieved with the aid of web services. Despite the fact that web services are built over the concept of web programming, developers must have in mind that there are substantial comparison aspects relevant to creating and hosting a web service. Knowing the procedure of constructing a web service, as well as its architecture and standards being used is highly required and important. This paper is intended to provide web programmers some of the basic concepts regarding two of the most commonly used web services nowadays. These two web services are WSDL (Web Service Description Language) and REST (Representational State Transition). It firstly provides the architecture, standards, and steps on how to create them. The paper then concludes with some findings and observations.