Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[TAllen@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Ah, OK.  I missed the part about using only one platform in the web
services.  Coding MS to MS everything works great.  That pretty much
defeats the purpose of web services being platform agnostic.

Thanks,
Todd Allen
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
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I concur.  My comments were mainly directed at ASP.Net/WCF development.

When crossing platforms hand coding can be vital.

We've had issues with our Java based workflow being called from .Net
clients.  We've gotten around the issues, but hasn't always been pretty.

Just fun to have a little laugh at Todd's expense.  Couldn't resist :-)

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date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:16:55 -0500
from: Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

You don't need to know a lot about WSDL's until you start developing more
complex data streams that talk to many different platforms and languages.
In the end, if you are offering public web services, you will inevitably
become familiarized with WSDL/XSD/XML because not everyone does it like
Microsoft.  And then once you become familiar with WSDL/XSD/XML and have to
"debug" it for your customers, you will inevitably say to yourself: why not
simplify this approach to use HTTP POST + simple XML (like I said earlier
in this post).

Just my experience of the roughly 10yrs I have been doing web services
(with the last 6 years doing it almost fulltime).

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/



 
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