Debugging SOAP stuff is a complete nightmare, but trying to figure out and implement somebody's RESTful API that has 100 different types of objects is also a ha

Debugging SOAP stuff is a complete nightmare, but trying to figure out and implement somebody's RESTful API that has 100 different types of objects is also a hassle, since there isn't code generation that can help you. For tiny one-API-call tasks, I'd much rather use a JSON REST API that I completely understand. When I'm trying to interface with a complicated system that has a million different objects, I'd rather spend an hour figuring out the tools, then rely on generated code so I can take advantage of IDE auto-completion instead of digging through the documentation to remember the params and return value. It's the in-between of these two cases that's the devil, especially since big nasty APIs always start out small and simple.