SOAP was worse than horrendous though. I’m sure i’m not the only one hit by ‘well Java SOAP and .net SOAP encode differently so they don’t work together well’ (

SOAP was worse than horrendous though. I’m sure i’m not the only one hit by ‘well Java SOAP and .net SOAP encode differently so they don’t work together well’ (let alone all the other different implementations each with their own similar differences). Or how about ‘oh it looks like your client is using SOAP 1.2 but the server is 1.1 and they are incompatible’. That was seriously a thing. Good luck talking to many different servers with different versions. SOAP wasn’t just bad. It was essentially only useable between same languages and versions. Which is an interesting issue for a layer whose entire purpose was interoperability.