A comparison of SOAP and REST implementations of a service based interaction independence middleware framework

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.