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I still have to use SOAP more often than I'd like to these days. It's a pain testing and dealing with all the different tools you have to use just to stand up a basic request.

A lot of vendors I've worked with will publish REST web services for public data but as soon as any private information needs to be accessed they use SOAP. I don't know if they just don't trust the tools to make REST secure or what but it's disappointing for sure.

Also the people who wrote the SOAP code are long gone which makes support for them even more difficult when I'm trying to get bugs fixed. REST server code has not been anywhere as bad to deal with.



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