SOAP vs REST: The war between simplicity and standards
Published Dec 05, 2008
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With REST we're back in the game of protocol development (yes, XML is really just the transport for the custom application protocol), but SOAP gives us a fixed format in terms of message envelope, data types, constructs, etc. I'm confident in this decision, and I'm the one who developed the current proprietary protocol to avoid having to map into an existing protocol - mind you, SOAP was young back then.