Is RESTful faster than SOAP? and when to use one of them?

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Duplicate: This is a duplicate of \"What are the best uses of REST services?\" and many others. Please close it.

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One factor is that RPC communications are often not cached as part of the HTTP stack because the caching middleware shouldn't need to understand the contents of the request. So, RESTful systems can take better advantage of caching.