Wash your hands of SOAP
This article by James Governor highlights the issues with the use SOAP for Web services.
As a hack and slash programmer, SOAP is daunting, and very difficult to implement and use; in most cases, I would rather go straight to a database.
Make Web services EASY! That’s all. Simple calls to known APIs in programming languages used by Web programmers. That’s all we want. We will use a Web service if is easy to plug in to what we already have.
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