I’m not a fan of technology stacks that come complete with their own ideologies.

I think there’s a somewhat common misconception about me — people think I’m a SOAP-only sort of guy and that I’m really not a fan of REST. That’s not true at all. First off, as Don points out, REST is an architectural style, not a protocol. It’s true that the HTTP protocol is a restful implementation but that’s not to say that non-HTTP protocols can’t be done restfully. Where I disagree with the RESTafarians is that I don’t think HTTP is that last application protocol you’ll ever need. I do think there a lot of interesting ideas and scenarios enabled by  RESTful usage of HTTP. I also think that WS-* solves a class of problems which RESTful HTTP does not handle well.

Determining the relative superiority of WS-* and RESTful HTTP has been the topic of much conversation in blogs, mailing lists, and sparsely attended cocktail parties. I’m sure that will be the case for a long time to come.

The point is, Indigo is bigger than that debate.

No ideology required.

I'm really excited about this change. I think it's only goodness. It's been very interesting to watch it evolve throughout the group. It's made me more convinced than ever that Indigo is going to be the platform to beat when it comes to distributed communcation.