It all depends on what Microsoft releases. As they release stuff about HailStorm, the more there is to talk about. I think we ve got two years before we see anything come of what was covered yesterday. I just finished reading both of the specs, back to back. I m still trying to get my head around it all.
SOAP builds on many schemas and it is often difficult to untangle the thread of complicated logic.
Microsoft has thrown a lot of muscle at SOAP and it showes. Conversely, XML-RPC is very straight forward and easy to implement. There s still tons of work to do on SOAP and XML-RPC before developers start using them to produce a lot of apps. This seems to be the most overlooked part of the whole Web Services movement. This seems to be a missing link.