Sure it's subjective, but I'm having trouble thinking of circumstances where SOAP is not a good idea. the only one I can really think of is low bandwidth/low memory situations, where the overheads for HTTP and the processing time for the transport stuff becomes significant.

So if you are implementing a XML RPC server on your Palm I agree SOAP is wrong. Other than that, I can't really see a reason not to use it.

OK, one just occured - doing callbacks is not the easiest trick, but is trivial to work around.

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