Hi all,

   I've seen in few commercial projects of which I was part recently, and here's the trend I saw,

1) Architects have been choosing to implement REST services instead of using Web Services (using SOAP & XML). Perhaps this is fine with a mobile app, but not always in other software applications.

2) Architects have been choosing JSON in general, instead of XML as a data exchange syntax. Perhaps this is because, JSON is simple to use instead of XML.