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Roger L. Costello wrote:
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> Not sure that I follow you Tim. Are you saying that Web services
> will push more of the processing onto the client, and off the
> server? Why do you think that? /Roger
>
Just speaking for myself, surely that's axiomatic? If you need a
sequence of processes to complete a transaction, then a Browser Query
(to invent a term for existing model) requires all the programmatic
processes to take place on the server (ignoring processing by the user,
or by risky HTML-parsing applications), but a Web Service gets a
compact, text-only response which can be further processed client-side.
Web Services won't suport an advertising model, they'll apply to user
transactions like:
[1]
do you have this book, and how much are you charging for it?
[2]
when is the next train home from Hampton Wick?
[3]
How low is our share price today?
All these can get a better user interface from the client side - indeed,
they'll probably spawn the next generation of desktop applications, and
will be way more efficient as web services than as browser queries.
Francis.
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