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Naveen Kannoju02547126464965992Naveen Kannoju02547126464965992 

could you please explain about the http/rest and soap based callouts

cloud you please explain about the http/rest based and soap based callouts ,what is difference between http/rest and soap based callouts 
when to use which is better to choose .
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Frédéric TrébuchetFrédéric Trébuchet
The best way to start are... the starting guides.
You should find what you expect using these links
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/api_rest.pdf
http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/4051/rest-api-vs-soap-api-in-salesforce

Regards,
Fred

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Frédéric TrébuchetFrédéric Trébuchet
Hi,
Here are 2 links for this purpose (sorry, 2nd one is in french)
http://spf13.com/post/soap-vs-rest
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=integrate_what_is_api.htm

Hope this helps
Fred
Frédéric TrébuchetFrédéric Trébuchet
To complete and summarize:
- If you have the choice, prefer REST which will be lighter and adapted to the interactive applications
- If you request intermediate services which have to work with data WSDL and XML, you probably have to use SOAP

Fred
Naveen Kannoju02547126464965992Naveen Kannoju02547126464965992
Hi..
Frédéric Trébuchet,

first , I would like to thanks given this reply.

can you give simple code about rest and soap, I am learning salesforce 
what steps there or where to start the process.

please give me help for this.

Thanks
Naveen 


 
Frédéric TrébuchetFrédéric Trébuchet
The best way to start are... the starting guides.
You should find what you expect using these links
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/api_rest/api_rest.pdf
http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/4051/rest-api-vs-soap-api-in-salesforce

Regards,
Fred
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Frédéric TrébuchetFrédéric Trébuchet
Don't hesitate to like or better, to mark this response as the best one ;) and feel free to ask more

Fred