“I say that, six or seven years into the Web Services era, the onus is on the WS-* advocates to prove the need, because the advocates of KISS approaches have, I think, amply demonstrated the viability of their approaches.”

“Clearly, each of these uses would benefit from the ability to deploy a common solution that can satisfy both the machine-to-machine and human interaction modes of access to a service through a single URI”. Will it require the uniform interface?

“Your work has contributed to one of the largest volunteer search efforts ever” I can’t help but smile to think that Jim, wherever he is, would get a kick out of how this was done. Kudos to Werner and everyone who contributed.

Cool. This seems (if it were working and I could try it out) to essentially be what my old company, Planetfred, was building 5 years ago. We didn’t have the pretty UI though (nor any UI in fact 8-).

“This tension, often described as a battle, was in fact fruitful to both sides”. Indeed. Still one more thing for the WS-* folks to understand though; that REST is an *improvement* on SOA.