SOAP is dead

SOAP is Comatose But Not Officially Dead
(Manageability blog)

This is an article from back in 2005, much to my surprise. SOAP has been feeling dead to me for a while, but there were people even thinking about it enough over two years ago to write stories about its demise.

For new things that I am writing I have largely switched over to REST-style designs, and they are proving to be far more straightforward to deal with, and do everything I need. I will write more about that here at a later date. Of course if you want to speak with me about REST, you can send me email and I'd love to talk about it.