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SOAP is a good idea, but a bad implementation. The key, imho, to web services is that you have a defined API. How that API is implemented is less important.

As for good design ideas, look at what the AJAX people are doing. The really rich AJAX applications are Javascript applications that consume a Web API.

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?
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