The End of SOAP?
- Used internally by many companies, part of a Service
Oriented Architecture (SOA).
- Rarely used in the wild:
- Flickr provides both SOAP and REST but everyone uses
REST.
- Google dropped SOAP support in favor of REST.
- Why?
- Requires re-compilation whenever server upgrades
version.
- Uses strong typing.
- Generated code (client-side) is hard to
upgrade.
- Its too complicated: SOAP becomes WS-deathstar backed by IBM and Microsoft.
- People don't use it.
José M. Vidal
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