> Can you please give some more info about your opinion? Visual Studio web services generates some befuddling code, at least when I last used it about 5 years

> Can you please give some more info about your opinion? Visual Studio web services generates some befuddling code, at least when I last used it about 5 years ago. Maybe things are better now? Also, it is difficult to implement a good SOAP library. For example, in the Ruby world, there is soap4r, which has difficulties talking to EJB SOAP and .NET SOAP, which have different conventions. I had to interop with a .NET soap service, and it was pretty painful. > My SOAP services was always easier to implement than others like XML-RPC for example. Never found anything complicated about SOAP. Good for you. You must be smart. I find REST much easier and straightforward. I never bothered learning the SOAP protocol, which doesn't make me very sad for some reason.