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I've been asked a number of times whether SOAP is becoming obsolete. Cited examples: * Amazon offers both SOAP and REST interfaces to its API. According to Amazon, REST was used 85% of the time. * Google quietly dropped its SOAP API in late 2006. * Ruby on Rails 2.0 will drop its SOAP API in favor of a built-in native REST API. So does this signify the end of SOAP? Not at all. It's a matter of SOAP recovering from its initial overzealous hype. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle, SOAP would be leaving the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" and, as the above examples illustrate, entering the "Trough of Disillusionment."