versioning and naming convensions for webservices

[Erik P. Vinther]

Hi

This might be slightly OT, but I couldn't find a better NG for this question

The question is regarding versioning of webservices. A webservice end point URL basically consists of a base company URL and a webservice name, e.g…

webservices.MyCompany.com/MyService

we want to be able to host several versions of a particular webservice at the same time, so we want the version id to be part of the end point URL. This is consistent with the “teachings� of Microsoft, but is the recommendation that the version id should be located at the very end of the URL, e.g. webservices.MyCompany.com/MyService/1.0/ or in front of the webservice name, e.g. webservices.MyCompany.com/1.0/MyService/

The below two articles each advocate one of the naming conventions, so what’s the resulting recommendation

Evolving an Interface: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ice04032002.as

Versioning options: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ice10152002.as

Thank
Eri