Ben Reichelt's Weblog

Appropriate uses of web services

This post has moved to a new server.

View it at:

Appropriate uses of web services

(http://benreichelt.net/blog/2005/1/31/Appropriate-uses-of-web-services/)

Published Jan 31 2005, 06:05 PM by breichelt

Comments

Scott Galloway said:

Personally, if the client is connecting to a DB on a LAN I'd tend to use remoting more than WebServices - config is easier and it lets you more rapidly switch between remote and local versions (handy for debugging). Of course, it also lets you avoid the need for IIS :-)

# February 1, 2005 3:56 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Umm...config referring to code-related configuration, not the *actual* config of course :-)

# February 1, 2005 3:56 AM

Brendan Tompkins said:

Ben,

I think your soltion is fine, from everything I've gleaned on the subject, for these reasons:

1) Using Web Services now for this type of communication will put you in a better position for moving to Indigo.

2) Transferring DataSets is *okay* (not great, but okay), if you can be sure you can control both ends. Behind the firewall, you most probably can.

http://codebetter.com/blogs/brendan.tompkins/archive/2004/06/22/17281.aspx

# February 1, 2005 6:09 AM