I’ve somewhat recently been reading about the REST vs. SOAP argument for web services.  I have written a few web services and own their maintenance and can definitely attest that SOAP can be a difficult way to go as the supporting libraries keep changing and the tools do a lot “for” you and when something goes wrong in there it can be difficult to track it down.

REST definitely seems to make more conceptual sense to me, and if it is going to be in Java EE 5 then hopefully that will make it easier to build RESTful systems.

Does Java EE 5 getting REST mean WOA will break out?

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