Finally, we have a book that vindicates the desirability of a REST interface over AJAX and SOAP. http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/a_year_in_oreilly_books.html, I remember back when SOAP, UDDI and all the rest of the corporate web services stack was introduced, many people in the open source community saw it as an attempt to recapture the web, making it complex [...]