[Spivak]

SOAP is fine if you're talking to yourself or otherwise confined to a single dialect. But that's not saying much since that's true of any data format. SOAP falls down when trying to get systems all developed by n different companies all talking to one another which was/is the whole point of the stupid thing.

[codr7]

Word.

As long as you're running the same code on both ends it sort of works. It's still over engineered to the moon and back, and a major pita to deal with, but at least the damn thing works.

Anything beyond that fails in spectacular ways.

It will not be missed.

[TedDoesntTalk]

The people responsible for inflicting SOAP upon us should suffer.

[occz]

Was there a lot of competing standards in SOAP, leading to incompatibility between libraries? That would indeed seem to defeat the point, if true.

[kaba0]

But SOAP endpoints can be autogenerated (as opposed to REST), which basically makes this much less of an issue.