It's been a couple weeks since any updates. ;-) Sorry about that. I've been finishing up my book. I have a big deadline on Monday.

I notice that there has been a ton of email and blog ports on REST vs. Web services. I guess the Google guys SOAP interface started everything.

Here's a query for a REST guy: SOAP can follow REST. Just take out the awful RPC and encoding stuff. SOAP is a messaging format that is loosely coupled to transport and implementation. What more could anyone ask for? Seriously, I hate using SOAP for RPC. If you take that out, how close are we?