ABSTRACT
Traditional web services are very powerful applications but are rather complicated and require specialized development skills to design and implement. Not all business requirements need such a robust toolset underlying the implementation. Web 2.0 is a way to design distributed applications without the need to resort to SOAP for application logic. Web 2.0 depends upon simpler application programming interfaces (API), which can be called (as do many SOAP messages) by uniform resource identiers (URIs).
