As an aside, it’s fascinating to watch REST awareness grow amongst enterprise technologists. I await the day when an enterprise architect lectures me in a meeting on not getting the REST style; as opposed to being dismissed as a fool for suggesting it (as might have happened any time in the last 6/7 years when WS-* and SOA represented orthodoxy).
I just recently read an article that aimed to shed light on the “SOAP vs. REST” debate — concluding that it’s the wrong one to have because both are OK, but “the real problem is HTTP”.