A comparison of SOAP and REST implementations of a service based interaction independence middleware framework
Gavin Mulligan, Denis Gračanin · Winter Simulation Conference · 2009
This paper describes the conceptual design of an interaction independence middleware framework and describes the role that web services plays within it. We investigate two pervasive service-oriented architecture paradigms, SOAP and REST, in order to gauge their potential effectiveness in meeting underlying back-end data transmission requirements; provide implementations for the service-oriented architecture and data model; and, finally, critically evaluate both implementations with an emphasis on their performance with regard to both efficiency and scalability.