Pergunta de entrevista da empresa Yahoo

What is the difference between REST API and Web-Service

Resposta da entrevista

Sigiloso

12 de nov. de 2014

Web Services - that's standard defined by W3C, so they can be accessed semi-automatically or automatically (WSDL / UDDI). Web API is typically done as HTTP/REST, nothing is defined, output can be eg. JSON/XML, input can be XML/JSON/or plain data. There are no standards for anything => no automatic calling and discovery.