Handling Web-Based Application Errors

Web-based applications suffer all of the common SOAP problems that we’ve discussed so far in this book. For example, a Web-based application is just as sensitive to changes in the WSDL file as a desktop application is. You don’t get special functionality using a Web-based application either. Nothing about a Web-based application will make it magically handle the complex data type scenarios that we discussed in Chapter 8.

Developers face some additional challenges when working with Web-based applications. For example, unlike your LAN, the Internet has connectivity problems. The following sections discuss some potential application errors that you’ll need to overcome to make your Web-based application work ...

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