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.
