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Re: Interesting XML-DIST-APP thread

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Interesting XML-DIST-APP thread
• From: Francis Norton <francis@r...>
• Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:59:50 +0000
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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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