Tony and Ben are right on... Invoking Stephen Colbert's concept of... "The Word"... the word is... "MiddleWare". As legacy U2 was ahead of its time... by building-in middleware technologies... it is easy to lose sight of what belongs where.
--Bill -----Original Message----- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Gravagno Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Consuming web services I do the same as Ben but with .NET: -- Local U2 <> .NET client <web service> Remote server Pick is a database server, not a communications protocol end-point. We simply should not be doing direct comms from this platform anymore, given the huge number of mainstream options. This is coming from someone who has written all of the bi-directional comms interfaces to/from MV with sockets and cURL and plugins and anything else I could create - because (in the 90's) people said it wasn't possible and because I figured it would be kewl just to do it. It _is_ all technically possible, but that doesn't mean it makes good business sense: Doing things like this in BASIC creates a maintenance hassle later. It leaves the environment subject to DBMS-specific issues that often aren't addressed for quite a long time. Using mainstream tools vastly increases the resources available for getting help and solving problems. So these days I get MV to push a query or data payload out to a middle-tier that uses the latest communications methods available. The request goes out, the response comes back, it all just works - that That should be our bottom line here. HTH T > From: Ben Souther > We use a middle layer written in Java. > Jeff Schasny wrote: > > I know we have both the SOAP and RESTful web services development for > > publishing web services from Universe but how are folks consuming > > other peoples web services into the database? Are there tools for this > > or am I going to just open a socket, read, and parse 'till I'm blue in the face? _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
