8.3. Endpoint Design Issues

The adventure builder developers considered a set of issues when designing a Web service. These issues encompassed such areas as the development approach for the Web service interface, the type of endpoint to use, the granularity of the service, the types of parameters to pass to the interface, the structure of the service's interaction and business processing layers, delegating to the business logic, the types of clients accessing the service endpoint, and deployment issues.

Earlier chapters addressed many of these issues. Here we try to show how such decisions are made in a real-world, comprehensive application. Note that this chapter bases its discussion using three of adventure builder's Web service interfaces: ...

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