How I Explained REST. REST-style architecture in the real world. A couple of weeks ago, I presented REST to the IT staff in the London division of a major US investment bank.
Out of something like 100 people, only a small number of people had ever heard of REST. Yet this bank had invested in a REST to SOAP bridge to facilitate delivering product and market information over the web. SOAP is Not Dead - It's Undead, a Zombie in the Enterprise. SOAP is dead.
No it's not. SOAP is undead.