Web Service Usage Best Practice

[chadau]

We have 2 seperate business problems to resolve that require the use of Web service technology. My question is, should we use 1 Web service or use 2 distinct Web services to facilitate a business solution? I am really looking to get advice on the best practice for this situation with my main concern being server resource utilization and performance.

 

[SiriusBlackOp]

Are you ever going to want one running in one place and one in another?

Are the problems for the same database / system?

It's just a future planning kind of question... more of a judgment call then anything.


If you do put them in the same one... definitely create 2 separate asmx pages(one for each purpose) so that you can easily separate them out later if you must.


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[chadau]

I don't think they would ever need to run on seperate servers. Also, both solutions would involve connecting to a Legacy system and a SQL Server. Will performance be better by combining the solutions into one Web Service?

 

[vbkris]

>>We have 2 seperate business problems to resolve that require the use of Web service technology

some more questions:
1. Are you planning to reuse this anywhere else?
2. Is there any relationship between this services (Data retrieved by them)

The ONLY problem with 2 services is when you have data to pass between the 2 services.

Otherwise even if they are in the SAME service for EACH call the same overhead is made as if you called a separate service...

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