Snip!t from collection of Alan Dix

I was recently talking with Jeff Barr, creator of <a href="http://www.syndic8.com">syndic8</a> and now Amazon's chief web services evangelist. He let drop an interesting tidbit. Amazon has both <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP/">SOAP</a> and <a href="http://internet.conveyor.com/RESTwiki/moin.cgi/">REST</a> interfaces to their web services, and 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corporate hype over the SOAP stack, this is pretty compelling evidence that developers like the simpler REST approach. (I know there are many more complex applications where SOAP is better, but I've always liked technologies that have low barriers to entry and grassroots adoption, and simple XML over HTTP approach seems to have that winning combination.)