Loraine Lawson just posted a thought-provoking piece, asking if SOAP is "holding back business." SOAP versus REST was an inside-the-datacenter developers' debate, but there's more at stake these days, ...

Almost NO-ONE uses the SOAP API if they can help it, including Paypal services themselves. The first thing that Paypal support will tell you to do if you run into trouble is to try using the NVP API ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

There has been an ongoing debate over the value of REST and the value of SOAP, when it comes to SOA. Ss much as been said about it, I did not think I could add much value to the discussion. Of course, ...

Microsoft executive and XML pioneer Jean Paoli is skeptical of battle between the services, believing that developers make choices based on project needs There are perceptions afoot of a Web services ...