Web services accessibility

[Samuel Shulman]

Hi all

I need to implement functionality for a wide range of user (which I can't
anticipate at this point who are they going to be and what technologies they
will be using)

The question is whether web services are accessible to all development
environments or only to some.

Thank you for your advice,
Samuel Shulman
SBS Technologies Ltd

[John Saunders]

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Hi all

I need to implement functionality for a wide range of user (which I can't
anticipate at this point who are they going to be and what technologies
they will be using)

The question is whether web services are accessible to all development
environments or only to some.

Web Services can be developed in a platform-independant manner. Just don't
try to pass or return any platform-specific types, and you'll be most of the
way there.

I do suggest that you test against multiple platforms, at least at first.
For a recent web service whose clients are .NET-only, I still tested against
an evaluation copy of IBM Rational Web Developer. That showed me several
problems with the schemas I was using - that platform didn't like
<xsd:sequence maxOccurs="2"for instance.

John