[UnoriginalGuy]

> Yesterday we had to implement adding two numbers over SOAP.

To be honest this actually sounds like a very useful exercise. I mean SOAP sucks, but SOAP, XML, and web-APIs are highly relevant to many jobs. Just being able to do simple things in SOAP (like add numbers) seems like it would be useful to a lot of students.

PS - I agree that UML is useless.

[pestaa]

Well, fortunately I've seen the XML terror coming from SOAP and WSDL, but in the class we had to use drag & drop wizards to create the service. How relevant is that.

Probably the intention is good, but the execution is dangerously discouraging and very very much out of sync with the industry.