What are disadvantages of REST web services?

Some of the disadvantages of REST are:

• Since there is no contract defined between service and client, it has to be communicated through other means such as documentation or emails.
• Since it works on HTTP, there can’t be asynchronous calls.
• Sessions can’t be maintained.

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