Chapter 10. Reusable Infrastructure with SOAP Extensions

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

—Albert Einstein

A typical Web service requires substantial infrastructure. If you are building services mainly for application integration, you'll probably need to implement security and error handling. Commercial Web services require at least an additional usage tracking system. Instead of implementing this infrastructure as part of the service itself, you should consider implementing it as reusable components that can be used with any Web service. This gives you all the traditional benefits of code reuse, including less development time and testing for subsequent projects. But it also has an especially important benefit ...

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