Are all web services automagically restful web services?

Question

Are all web services through HTTP and not SOAP automagically restful web services?

I have been hearing the term \"Restful web services\" everywhere.. but ain\'t it s

Answer 1

No, because to be a REST service, it needs to fulfil certain criteria. See wikipedia

There is a quote there which might answer your question better than I can:

SOAP RPC contrast

SOAP RPC over HTTP, on the other hand, encourages each application designer to define a new and arbitrary vocabulary of nouns and verbs (for example getUsers(), savePurchaseOrder(...)), usually overlaid onto the HTTP POST verb. This disregards many of HTTP's existing capabilities such as authentication, caching and content type negotiation, and may leave the application designer re-inventing many of these features within the new vocabulary.[8] Examples of doing so may include the addition of methods such as getNewUsersSince(Date date), savePurchaseOrder(string customerLogon, string password, ...).