Davey Shafik has posted a bit of a sneak peak at the code for the Zend_Service_Server he's been working up for one of the frameworks - maybe the Zend's.

OK, so I spent this weekend in a coding frenzy, the outcome of this, can be summed up with the [following] small snippet of code. This is just the typical public facing API, of course there is much more to this. I'm waiting to hear some feedback from specific people before I either contribute it to the Zend Framework or release it elsewhere.

The basic idea seems to be a more automated system to handle web services, including REST, SOAP, and XML-RPC handling.