Web Service Architecture question
 

Hello

I have several clients, mobile, web and desktop. I would like to depoly common functionality for these clients in Web Servvices. Also, I am developing business server processes (EXEs) as windows services. These server processes will encapsulate all the business logic on the server side including DB access

Questions:
1. How can my webservice communicate with these server processes? I dont want to duplicate the server process code like ADO.NET etc in my web seervice
2. In my server process project, can I add the webservice as an interface to the EXE

Thanks

Re: Web Service Architecture question
 

I've used TCP to send a message to the Windows Service.
I've got a thread that listens on a port in the Windows Service, and the
webservice connects to the Windows Service and sends across a text message
or XML to tell that Windows Serice what to do. The advantage of this is
that I cna have my webservices and windows services running on different
boxes.

Another technique is to have the websevice write a record in a database that
tells the Windows service what do to. The service then polls this database
to see what it should do.

Michael

"hk2004" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have several clients, mobile, web and desktop. I would like to depoly
common functionality for these clients in Web Servvices. Also, I am
developing business server processes (EXEs) as windows services. These
server processes will encapsulate all the business logic on the server side
including DB access.
>
> Questions:
> 1. How can my webservice communicate with these server processes? I dont
want to duplicate the server process code like ADO.NET etc in my web
seervice.
> 2. In my server process project, can I add the webservice as an interface
to the EXE ?
>
> Thanks!
>