Cart
[Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries]
On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:51 am, Roger L. Costello wrote: > I started this discussion on the other list and have been truly > fascinated by its flow. Thanks everyone! > > I have been trying to summarize and organize in my mind all of the > discussion. It seems to me that the discussion is leading towards a > "best practice" for using XML messaging (i.e., SOAP): > > 1. Stay away from using XML messaging to do fine-grained RPC. For > example, stay away from a service which returns the square root of a > number. Stay away from a service that returns a stock quote (this > is the classic-cited example of a Web service). > > 2. Conversely, use course-grained RPC. That is, use Web services > that "do a lot of work, and return a lot of information". > > 3. Consider making the XML messages asynchronous. > > 4. Always take the overall system performance into account. Don't > fine-tune your XML messaging when it consumes a small percentage of > the overall system time. 5. Ask yourself (your business/company) "Do I *really* have to do this"? Is there real ROI here?
|
