Re: Issue 5; GET vs GetLastTradePrice

Mark Baker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.services.ws-arch
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:38:27AM -0800, David Orchard wrote:
> The question from a Web services perspective, is does this same optimization
> make sense?  Do we have programs that already have prebuilt "method"s, or
> even a default method, and we simply have to punch in new addresses?  I
> don't think so.

It's not "Do we have ... ", Dave, since obviously our legacy enterprise
systems don't; they have custom interfaces.  The question should be
"*Can* we have ...".  And by that I don't mean can we rewrite our
existing software, I mean can we "wrap" that software with other
software that presents a uniform interface to its data and behaviour?

The answer to that is, for the vast majority of applications, yes.

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