SOAP and REST

I found a really great article that very simply describes the difference between SOAP and REST.  Most articles you read are written by folks that know a lot about one protocol but not the other.  And usually they are very biased toward REST.  For example, you'll see articles like "Why SOAP sucks" and the like.

In my experience SOAP is easier to create clients with if you have an IDE that can generate code using the WSDL file.

REST is easier to create clients with if you're calling the web service from JavaScript or you don't have code generation tools.

http://blog.smartbear.com/apis/understanding-soap-and-rest-basics/