We have a hacked version of zend framework in core that exists only to support 3 webservice protocols. AMF, xmlrpc, and soap. My gut feeling is that soap may have some light usage from .Net or Java devs - but xmlrpc and AMF probably have < 10 uses (I have no evidence to back this up).
I suggest we should remove this 7mb library from core and either rewrite those protocols to not depend on it or move them all to the plugins DB.
Comments and suggestions are welcome on MDL-49532.
Thanks!
This probably should be crossposted to the web services forum with more targeted focus about those web services plugin uses.