Re: RPG as Web service -- WEB400

Subject: Re: RPG as Web service
From: "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:34:48 -0400
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Why would they do that? Soap based Web services are a lot slower than

traditional ODBC, for example.

Yes, but the web service provides access to a process, ODBC provides
access to data. What if you want to control who does what. Or need to
add additional pre/post update processing to the call? A webservice
provides all sorts of extension points that a pure DB update doesn't.
Also, you're free to change your backend design as long as you maintain
the web service contract. Oh, and it's more cross-platform too. :-)

-Walden

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