If your clients need to follow whatever you tell them to do, you are very lucky. I tell you that.
In addition, plan for WSDL/UDDI will be a nice to keep in mind, then will your clients be able to all the programming work? The client should be care in many cases, but here goes one scenario. Say you have Web services, A, B, C, D, and E at the top level. But A and C need to be invoked prior to B and E. And D is allowed to access only after E. And so on. Shouldn't they know? They don't necessaryily need to know about your internal business process nor even workflow. I was just trying to point out that you may need to consider more and other stuff prior to just think about a technology tool. That was my piece of advice. Pae > like I said this stuff is all new to me.... > > Clients will be accessing known Web Services and will be provided > information about the service (like message layout). Will probably > implement WSDL/UDDI down the road. > Does the client really care how the service is being processed? Just need a > service that can process specific SOAP messages. > > Paul Faulkner > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pae Choi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 4:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: general question about AXIS > > > How would your external client access your Web service(s)? > Shouldn't you consider things other than "only requirements" > such as: > > + RPC-style or Document-style? > + If RPC-style is the choice, will your clients all agree to > write program, perhaps AXIS compatible client, to > communciate your Web service(s)? > + Will your client be arbitrary prospectives in public? If so, > will you be able to predict how they will discover your > Web service(s)? > + ... > > But since you have mentioned that "only requirements" > are Java and AIX. Axis will do among many others. > > > Pae > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Faulkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:20 AM > Subject: general question about AXIS > > > > I have very general question. We have several systems that we wish to > SOAP > > enable, our plan is to create a web service that communicates with these > > systems and allow external SOAP clients to access them. > > > > I am very new to this technology, is AXIS a good place to start? The only > > requirements we have is for the Web service to run on AIX and would prefer > > to use JAVA as our language. > > > > Appreciate and feedback, comments, etc... > > > > thanks, > > > > Paul Faulkner > > >
