A very insightful post. I was planning to integrate a few systems with SOAP where I am just a beginner! so I'll think twice about it. I am also exploring the usage of API's if any are provided by the systems in question.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Duggan Kim <mdkimani@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with the proponents of RESTFul web services, SOAP is going nowhere. The future is simple XML, JSON webservices and HTTP methods that are the basis of the very internet we expect to interconnect the various enterprise solutions.


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Patrick Kariuki <patrick.kariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
The biggest misconception where web services are concerned is that the
APIs are a framework to master SOA for web applications, they are
not!, they're a just a low level toolkit, a tip of the iceberg and
much more effort has to be put in, in order to produce web services
satisfactorily.

Quoting Mark Hansen, author of 'SOA using Java web services'

On 1/28/11, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
> nice post on SOAP, and why people drop it
> http://thecoffman.com/2011/01/please-drop-the-soap/
>
> --
> with Regards:
>
> The Chinese are known to be entrepreneurs, and coupled with some
> imagination, are now playing the role of nature in food and beverage
> production.
> http://gramware.blogspot.com/2011/01/chinese-way-to-become-imaginative.html
>
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