SOAP became very slippery and got washed down the drain. Seriously, SOAP is based on a number of rather heavy-weight standards: WS-*. In recent times, I have o

SOAP became very slippery and got washed down the drain. Seriously, SOAP is based on a number of rather heavy-weight standards: WS-*. In recent times, I have only seen it used in the context of Java based systems running on enterprise frameworks. Given the choice, I much rather use REST with JSON (instead of XML and its baggage).