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SOAP is dead. No it's not. SOAP is undead.

And the undead still inhabit the enterprise... in a big way.

I'm at Gluecon, the kind of event where passionate developers gather. These are people who for the most part never use SOAP. They work with REST - undoubtedly the king of all APIs.

John Musser knows the API market. He's the founder of Programmable Web, the well-regarded network that indexes and provides resources about APIs.

Musser presented last week at Gluecon about the soaring adoption of open APIs.

And so that's the focus of our weekly poll:

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When publishing an API, there are two preparatory steps to take before jumping into implementation. First, create metrics for determining the success of your effort. Secondly, take a good look at what you already have so that you can find out what you need to do before you publish.