Too bad SOAP was such a buggy, incompatible, painful mess to use in practice. I've liked protobufs the little that I've used them. Maybe that could be a soluti

Too bad SOAP was such a buggy, incompatible, painful mess to use in practice. I've liked protobufs the little that I've used them. Maybe that could be a solution, but I don't think it'll happen. A huge portion of my pain in web development is how amorphous and ill-defined the client-server interface inevitably is.