PUBLIC MARKS from ddelangle with tag soa

There has never really much debate about whether Service Oriented Architecture is a good idea or not. Based on principles such as loose coupling, encapsulation, location transparency, and the separation of infrastructure and applications, it has always had broad appeal

To define and describe a web-service API, many developers would use WSDL. Although WSDL is meant to be extensible to any protocol and message format, most people use it for HTTP GET/POST and SOAP, when writing to WS-* standards. On the other hand, developers writing a REST API using XML over HTTP typically don't use WSDL, or any other standardized definition/description of the API.