Evaluation and Comparison of Styles of Using Web Services

It is known that web services are versatile, meaning that they can be used in different styles and paradigms with intention to solve different problems. This paper focuses on performance and comparison between Remote Procedure Calls, Representational State Transfer and Service Oriented Architecture, by analyzing and comparing the performance of web services in a certain level by applying empirical methodology for comparison. Architectural principles and aspects will be the main standard for the comparison by including protocol layering, heterogeneity dealing, loose coupling and service identification. Furthermore, the phases of web service evolution are presented in this paper and the progress that is made till nowadays. The results from the performance and comparison will help software engineers decide which of the styles is more suitable to use web services for solving their problems.