Nope. Rest is stateless, which means it is a form of message passing - the right thing to do (a universal design principle, like a pipeline, etc). Soap is just

Nope. Rest is stateless, which means it is a form of message passing - the right thing to do (a universal design principle, like a pipeline, etc). Soap is just a crap by a committee of idiots. If you like this blue is new white pattern, consider Javascript is new J2EE instead.