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Roger L. Costello wrote: > > Not sure that I follow you Tim. Are you saying that Web services > will push more of the processing onto the client, and off the > server? Why do you think that? /Roger > Just speaking for myself, surely that's axiomatic? If you need a sequence of processes to complete a transaction, then a Browser Query (to invent a term for existing model) requires all the programmatic processes to take place on the server (ignoring processing by the user, or by risky HTML-parsing applications), but a Web Service gets a compact, text-only response which can be further processed client-side. Web Services won't suport an advertising model, they'll apply to user transactions like: [1] do you have this book, and how much are you charging for it? [2] when is the next train home from Hampton Wick? [3] How low is our share price today? 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. Francis.
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