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

The acronym REST stands for Representational State Transfer, this basically means that each unique URL is a representation of some object. Other (such as SOAP) are more RPC-like. SOAP refers to Simple Object Access Protocol and is usually overlaid onto the HTTP POST. SOAP has recently been stretched in some REST-like directions.