Lessons From the Failure of SOAP

The document provides a history of the development of SOAP from its origins in the late 1990s to its decline in popularity in the mid-2000s. It notes that SOAP was initially seen as a promising standard for web services but became overly complex over time with the proliferation of additional specifications. This complexity contributed to SOAP's failure to meet early expectations and the rise of simpler RESTful APIs and JSON as alternative standards.