When Do Web Services Make Sense?

Before you build, be sure the benefits of providing your function as a Web service outweigh the shortcomings. by Douglas Kerwin June 2003 Issue ADVERTISEMENT W eb services are still a fairly new technology, and not everyone has figured out how to best use them yet. In my experience (I built an entire enterprise software product on a Web services infrastructure), I've found two basic ways to use Web services: to integrate various systems and to provide functions as components for remote...n

Read More...

---