Huge, epic fail. I work with some extremely smart developers. When ever a task involving SOAP comes up, faces drop around the room. RESTful APIs (be they XML or JSON, the latter often preferable) are far, far easier to consume.
I don't have a link, but I remember hearing Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services claim that the services they provided in both REST and SOAP saw an order of magnitude traffic to the REST interface.
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Huge, epic fail. I work with some extremely smart developers. When ever a task involving SOAP comes up, faces drop around the room. RESTful APIs (be they XML or JSON, the latter often preferable) are far, far easier to consume.
I don't have a link, but I remember hearing Jeff Barr from Amazon Web Services claim that the services they provided in both REST and SOAP saw an order of magnitude traffic to the REST interface.