title: Can a SOA be designed with REST?
body: <p>I've been reading a lot about SOA's lately, but most of the content is SOAP-related and has a lot of "bureaucratic" stuff that belongs to C#/Java systems. Honestly, i think that such bureaucracy, specially SOAP, is a pain in the ass. So, i'm curious, can a SOA be designed with REST? </p>
  
  <p>Right now in by Ruby applications i make all my controllers RESTful. My web interface (forms, etc) make GET/POST/PUT/DELETE requests to the core, which is a REST webservice. All other systems that use the core make RESTful requests to it. Is this a SOA? </p>