Re: RPG as Web service

["Wintermute, Sharon" <Sharon.Wintermute@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walden, 

Your points are exactly why they DON'T want to use ODBC.   

Sharon 

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:35 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] RPG as Web service

> 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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