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What I get is SOAP applications always will be call to set of methods
which are not interrelated.
If a system has to be developed where a user logs in, does some
sequence of interrelated operations and logs out. In such kind of scenario
SOAP wont be a good choice.
SOAP will be useful to expose individual methods as SOAP calls.
Shashi Anand
-------Original Message-------
Date: Tuesday, May 14,
2002 17:50:37
Subject: RE: SOAP
applications ?
A SOAP or web service application is a distributed
application. It makes
calls to servers that you either control yourself
(such as an interface
to a legacy system), that are controlled by your
business partners, or
that provide a public information service (like
zip code services). SOAP
is just one way to make these calls. You build
an application treating
each web service as if it were just a local
component. What's nice is
that you can also take any information source
and put a web service
wrapper around it. By exposing this source as web
service, you and
anyone else has a well-known, cross-platform,
high-level way of calling
methods to retrieve data from this source--
SOAP.
One simple application that could be built in this manner
would be a
vacation planner. You could combine weather services, map
services, and
a seach engine all through web services. Punch in the zip
code of where
you are and where you are going and voila- out comes a
map, the weather
report, and some search engine results on what to do
once you get there.
www.xmethods.com <http://www.xmethods.com> has a
weather service (and
many other service useful for testing), google has
created a web service
exposing their search engine, and for a map
service you can just wrap
yahoo or mapquest in a simple web service
wrapper if it hasn't already
been done.
Erich Izdepski
Senior
Software Engineer
Cysive, Inc.
-----Original
Message-----
From: Shashi Anand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:
Tuesday, May 14, 2002 1:09 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
SOAP applications ?
Hi,
What could be SOAP
applications in real world ?
In other words how to decide whether
SOAP could be solution to some
scenarios.
Thanks
Shashi
Anand
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