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On Christmas Eve Eve Eve, I bring to you to the greatest software carol about web client/server communication ever composed to date. I know because I spent like 15 minutes on it.

Use REST, you Merry Gentlemen

Use REST you Merry Gentlemen
Let nothing stateful stay
Remember Hypertext our Saviour
Gets out of the firewalls way
To save us all from SOAPs confusion
When we were gone astray
O tidings of interoperability and joy,
Interoperability and joy
O tidings of interoperability and joy

In Irvine, in Cali-forn-ia,
This methodology was born,
And shared among the intertubes,
The W3C did morn.
To which the Enterprise crowd
Did rather take in scorn
O tidings of simplicity and joy,
simplicity and joy
O tidings of simplicity and joy

From code to our ed-it-ors
The aforementioned practice came;
And unto certain code-o-ers
Brought tidings of the same:
While not quite well defined as XMLRPC
It works almost the same.
O tidings of interoperability and joy,
Interoperability and joy
O tidings of interoperability and joy

Now to fast JSON sing our praises,
All you within this place,
And with true love and brotherhood
Each language it does embrace;
This great tide of options;
Lock in now replaced.
O tidings of interoperability and joy,
Interoperability and joy
O tidings of interoperability and joy