SOAP, REST or just XML for Objective-C/iPhone vs. server solution

Question

We are going to set up a solution where the iPhone is requesting data from the server. We have the option to decide what kind of solution to put in place and we are not sure

Answer 1

I think it's obvious that REST is the new king of servers communication, you should definitely use REST, the questions should be what REST methodology you should use and what coding language, in my post I present few very simple implementations for REST servers in C#, PHP, Java and node.js.