Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Choosing to Deploy a Web Service
Before diving in and turning all new products and functionality into web services, you should realize that web services are not the solution to all problems. This section outlines the factors you should consider before choosing to develop a given functionality as a web service.
Type of functionality. Is the function needed for internal use or for external business partners and customers? For internal use and a homogeneous target environment, a web service does not really make sense. Interdepartmental data exchange may warrant the development of web services, but there are other technologies that make more sense, including COM+ or .NET Remoting.
Deployment. Does the deployment of the function require a complex ...
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