Finally, the REST blizzard got through the W3C roof. BEA proposed HTTP GET Binding for SOAP.


http://webservices.org/index.php/article/articleview/377/

Leigh Dodds, published an authoritative roundup on the REST vs SOAP virtual warfare. I don't think this is the end of it, but at least by now a few things are clear: 1) Web applications as we know them are here to stay. 2) Web services will not magicly overtake the Internet unless they take into account 1)



REST roundup

XMLForm, a servers side implementation of XForms has been contributed to Apache Cocoon.
Documentation is publicly available at

Cocoon's web site