Organizing Large Web Service

Hi all,

How do you all organize your large web services?

I have a service which needs to cover multiple components. Do you build one
asmx file for all the functions. Multiple ASMX files - grouping by
functionality? Or have do you go the document route - in which the details
are in the XML, and the web service routes it to the appropriate backend?

Some of the components need "high" performance, and I need usability, so
I'm hoping to stay away from the document-centric model.

Any ideas?

Thanks!


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One of the good things about webservices is that you can offset load between
servers easily based on functional requirement.  Given the opportunity, its
easy to treat a set of services as a component and dedicate hardware to it,
of course if they need to call other webservices in a chain this can impact
performance.  There is though no reason why you can't have lots of asmx file
locally utilising each others services though, nor is there really any
reason why you can't have one asmx file with lots of methods in it.

I tend to have lost of asmx file with related methods encapsulated and
offset these to other servers if the load in any single asmx method might
cause bottlenecks.

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Regards

John Timney (MVP)
http://www.johntimney.com
http://www.johntimney.com/blog


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> Hi all,
>
> How do you all organize your large web services?
>
> I have a service which needs to cover multiple components. Do you build
> one
> asmx file for all the functions. Multiple ASMX files - grouping by
> functionality? Or have do you go the document route - in which the details
> are in the XML, and the web service routes it to the appropriate backend?
>
> Some of the components need "high" performance, and I need usability, so
> I'm hoping to stay away from the document-centric model.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> spamhoneypot@rogers.com (Do not e-mail)