Well, actually, they jumped the shark two years ago March. But it’s only recently that various Titans of Industry have gotten impatient with this particular shark jump’s failure to become the new pop culture craze and decided to try accelerating the process.

Abstract

This submission describes defines how to invoke a simple set of familiar verbs (Get, Post, Put, and Delete) using SOAP. An application protocol may be constructed to perform these operations over resources.

If those verbs seem familiar, it’s because they’re the verbs at the core of HTTP, which, besides being what the whole Web runs on, is what SOAP itself nearly always runs on.

Anyone want to give odds on how long before they try to sell us SOAP running on HTTP running on SOAP?