REST is Stateless service

Advantages of Stateless service

• Better scaling
  1. No session storage on server
  2. Any server in a cluster can handle any request
  3. All the result pages can safely be cached
• More reliable
  1.  client can safely re-send a request
• Better resource reuse
  1. All the result pages can safely be linked to
• By using REST over HTTP instead of SOAP, we can drastically reduce the overhead of message processing
• An HTTP server implementation is feasible for a mobile device