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Poll: Do you work with SOAP or REST services?

Do you mainly work with SOAP or REST, a little of both services, or neither? Let us know by taking this developer poll.

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justin james
justin james
Jan 25, 2013
1 minute read
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I rarely work with SOAP Web services unless they are part of an enterprise application. Many services I integrate with do not even offer a SOAP end point. But I am always doing a lot of integrations with things oriented towards consumers, or for use primarily in non-enterprise scenarios.

All the same, the lack of SOAP support surprises me, given the relative lack of support for REST in .NET. I would say that nearly all of the systems I connect to are using REST, but when I make a Web service I use SOAP. What is your mix of SOAP and REST?

J.Ja

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justin james

I am an all purpose IT person. If there's a generic job title in IT, I've probably had it, most likely more than once. Programmer, systems administrator, DBA, PC tech/repair, Help Desk, webmaster, web designer, web developer, applications developer, network engineering. Somehow I have managed to get my thumb stuck in each one of those pies!