These are some of the important advantages of RESTful web services:
- Fast – The Web Services are fast because there is no strict specification of SOAP. It consumes less bandwidth and resource.
- Language Independent – The web services can be written in any programming language.
- Platform Independent – The web services can be executed on any platform.
- Can use SOAP – The web services can use SOAP web services as the implementation.
- Allows different data format – The web service permits different data format such as Plain Text, HTML, XML, and JSON.