http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wsdl%2C%20restful&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wsdl%2C%20restful&cmp... SOAP is past its peak but far f

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wsdl%2C%20restful&cmpt=q http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wsdl%2C%20restful&cmp... SOAP is past its peak but far from dead. In the Microsoft ecosystem, SOAP is nearly transparent, except for a bit of fiddling - you publish your WSDL from your definitions, I consume it to generate an API class on my end, and after maybe ten minutes on either side, we don't even think about SOAP again.