Simon Willison’s Weblog

Web Services based on SOAP and WSDL are "Web" in name only. In fact, they are a hostile overlay of the Web based on traditional enterprise middleware architectural styles that has fallen far short of expectations over the past decade.

— Nick Gall, VP Gartner

# 27th January 2007, 1:55 pm / gartner, soap, web-services, wsdl