Thanks for the kind talking points Jose and Joshua. I will have an Extended Ed and 1 hour lab on REST and will have plenty of booth time so swing by and I can chat about approaches.
We do have ‘interface change’ reporting we rolled out internally in 10.1 to try to eliminate the accidental change of an API or data structure that blows up an integration. I have not heard of too many issues since rolling this out so hopefully it is helping all of you as it was intended.
WCF has its quirks though and REST will be a larger focus as we go forward. We won’t be dropping WCF so don’t panic - it solves some more advanced scenarios. For simple point to point however REST is very easy as indicated above. We have a couple of new products to announce at Insights that are based on REST and a new project I am leading that is also REST based so you can assume it’s pretty solid.
To be honest, the biggest scare we had and why we stamped the ‘Tech Preview’ on REST was the use of OData syntax for querying. I was waiting for an army of RESTafarians to come at us with pitchforks but I think we positioned things well enough to make most happy.