My worst memory of SOAP is using it. Experienced it for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago (all I've used before now is ad-hoc JSON or XML apis, mostly J

My worst memory of SOAP is using it. Experienced it for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago (all I've used before now is ad-hoc JSON or XML apis, mostly JSON) and (knocks on wood) never, ever again. The article touches on a few of the things I really didn't like about it, the main one being the expectation that you will use tooling to generate code rather than the contract first, and that every time I hit a hurdle and switched to a different library, I had to start over.