Dear SOAP,
Please drop dead.
Sincerely,
/s/ an engineer frustrated with over-designed, under-implemented and uselessly complex, bloated and generally fucked-up “standards”
SOAP replies
Dear Dadhacker,
I’m here to stay. Suck it.
-Sudsy
Dadhacker’s response
Dear SOAP,
My name is Dadhacker. You killed my whole day. Prepare to die.
Sincerely,
/s/ Your Nemesis
Dear Soap,
Go take a REST, you need it.
Sincerely,
/L/, who has seen the light.
I’m expecting a drive by JSon’ing any moment.
This makes me smile 🙂
I had to interface with Akamai’s API in 2009 and spent an inordinate amount of time trying to circumnavigate their custom type “list of string” in suds. I gave up and used a Java lib.
For anybody who hasn’t seen The S Stands for Simple: http://wanderingbarque.com/nonintersecting/2006/11/15/the-s-stands-for-simple/
What on earth still uses soap? I haven’t had to touch that mess since 2011.
Give SOAP a REST with JSON.
There. I just drove by.