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Simple Object Access Protocol a.k.a SOAP

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What are the deciding factors in choosing to expose a web service as a SOAP or REST service?

As far as I can see consuming SOAP requires a SOAP stack, so it is harder for your clients to consume i.e. they need to ensure that they have a SOAP stack in place that formats the POST data and the ...
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Why do people think SOAP is deprecated? [closed]

While browsing SO today I found this question here and it starts with this: Sure, you're gonna tell me that SOAP is depracated and all, well i'm forced to use it Found lots of statement like this ...
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Layers and layers of SOAP

I am designing the back-end to a SOAP web-service and have a question about how I am thinking of doing it. I am going to go with a simple layered design which consists of 3 separate layers. Layer 1 -...