advantage of Web Services

[brian.wilson4]

It has been suggested we use web services in our winform app. App is
(insert,update,delete) data mgmt front end for an Oracle DB. Plan was
to use C# to develop forms and PL/SQL for all data manipulation. How
do web services improve this situation?
2.0 framework....10g r2 Oracle....

 

[Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP]]

Hi,

I personally don't see any feasible application of Web services in the
scenario you've described. Did the person who recommend the use of Web
services provide any reasonable explanation? Otherwise, I might suspect that
someone has just heard too much of the modern "SOA" buzz

 

[Marc Gravell]

Web-services may have a role to play here if you need to:
* Provide access to the data without access to the database (e.g. through an
https extranet)
* Centralise data access, e.g. for security (limited accounts with access,
mapped at a central server)
* Support a number of disparate client architectures (e.g. .net, java,
"Fred's home-built QBasic SOAP client", etc)
* Access the feature-set of WSE
etc

If it is a simple "database -> winform -> database" app for internal use,
then direct data access may well be entirely appropriate; KISS etc (the
acronym, not a request)

Marc