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Chapter 2 - Web Application technologies P a g e | 42 The response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: nnn Design any details RESTfull Vs. SOAP based: The last example shows the RESTfull approach is much simpler and concise as it does not need additional messaging layer and it is closer in design and philosophy to the Web from the other hand SOAP based web services have better design in distributed computing environments and has much higher support by other standard like (WSDL, WS-* ) in addition to possessing its own built in faults handling mechanism.