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1/10/2002 8:59:50 AM, Francis Norton <francis@redrice.com> wrote:
>Roger L. Costello wrote:
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> > Are you saying that Web services
> > will push more of the processing onto the client,
>Just speaking for myself, surely that's axiomatic?
Maybe I don't follow, but this can't be "axiomatic" when one prominent
use case for Web Services is to allow books to be ordered,
schedules to be checked, etc. from very light wireless devices.
>Web Services won't suport an advertising model,
Again unless I'm misunderstanding, this appears to equate
"Web Services" with RPC using XML and HTTP. Several of the posters
in the xml-dist-app thread made the point that XML, HTTP, and SOAP (etc.)
can be used to support alternative, asychronous communications
and server-based coordination models. Consider a system that allowed
suppliers to "advertise" available seats or rooms or books in a database
or "XML space" via SOAP interfaces, and allowed consumers to
request specific seats or rooms or books via another SOAP interface that
generated a query to the shared DB or space. That would be a "web service,"
albeit one that uses a richer server-side coordination model rather than a
simple "check every source via RPC and let the client sort it out" coordination model.
Likewise, a SOAP interface that lets one use a cellphone to launch an "agent"
that would run on a server, query multiple databases or websites for the
best price on a specific seat/room/book, then e-mail back its recommendation,
is still a "web service" to me. Sorry if I'm belaboring an obvious point ...
[ordering books, checking schedules, checking stocks]
>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.
On the other hand, I fully agree that the most realistic short-term use for
SOAP/UDDI/WSDL is simply to do cleanly and interoperably with XML
what is now done with all sorts of HTML and HTTP voodoo, hand-coding,
and fragmentary documentation. When you have a fat client, exploit it!
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