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Routing around the WS-* vendor stacks: Indeed, WS-* appears to be yet another ivory tower going up in a place no sane native would want to live. The village of the web is already plenty strong to withstand the distraction. Complex lights, flickering buzzwords, and long roadmaps to nowhere notwithstanding.

[Yes, but there’s no reason to ignore XML-RPC. I understand much of the argument for REST, and have no problem with it. But to many it is a very new way to approach the problem, and there’s much about it that feels raw. XML-RPC has been quietly doing the 80% thing for years, and I suspect will continue to do so for a long time. In the meantime, I’d love to see more reference work done, so that REST stuff feels simpler to developers.]
Source: Loud Thinking