[pjmlp]

They are better everywhere, it makes no sense replicating CORBA and DCOM, parsing text all the time.

It is always a matter of tooling, being able to easily look into whatever they might contain.

I guess at least JSON-RPC (which most REST is actually about) isn't as bad as SOAP.

[guidedlight]

I remember working in a large corporate on a central integration broker (from memory it was Java based).

The CPU required for marshalling and demarshalling JSON and SOAP was easily over 80% of the workload. And yes, you are right SOAP is worse.

I always thought is probably an opportunity to create hardware accelerators for this type of workloads.