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I also get to deal with SOAP occasionally. I recently got the joy of dealing with it for a CA's API.

It's clearly the result of developers and managers more interested in what the technology CAN do than what it should do.

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In my experience, it wasn't that. Larger companies put value in supporting standards, because it is an important checkbox in their marketing, and SOAP is definitely a standard.

I was talking about how SOAP itself was designed.

... oh :)

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