Web Services For e-commerce?

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Tina - 26 Feb 2007 17:53 GMT

My boss asked me to look into passing orders back and forth with our vendors
and customers using web services. It seems web services are designed to
just provide data from a call. It seems e-commerce demands more
architecture such as sync and async responses, etc.

Is Web services architecture itself good enough for the kind of e-commerce
we need to do?

Thanks,
T

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Peter Morris - 26 Feb 2007 20:42 GMT

You can use sessions etc just as you can with a website, so think of a
webservice as a website where another computer is the user.

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Tina - 27 Feb 2007 01:46 GMT

I notice that all of the books on web services are pretty old. I don't see
any with anything about "sessions". Is there any good up-to-date books or
material available?
Thanks,
T

> You can use sessions etc just as you can with a website, so think of a
> webservice as a website where another computer is the user.

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chandy@totalise.co.uk - 28 Feb 2007 11:35 GMT

> I notice that all of the books on web services are pretty old. I don't see
> any with anything about "sessions". Is there any good up-to-date books or
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> > You can use sessions etc just as you can with a website, so think of a
> > webservice as a website where another computer is the user.

Umm, what? That wouldn't work that I know of! You need to emulate
sessions by passing the same identifier all the time (as standard
sessions do with cookies or url tokens). Think of calling the
webservice like calling a database, if your request is specific to
something (a primary key), you will be passing that as an argument to
the web method.

In principle using webservices is fine though.

My 2c

Chandy

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