Well Jon, As I'm sure you are aware, there are message queuing services available through various middleware packages that you can just dump your message onto that queue and allow the service to deliver it when it comes back up....but that type of activity is only useful when dealing with asynchronous interfaces....when dealing with synchronous interfaces (like most are)....I think you simply notify your customer base that 'function x is not available during this outage window'
You could of course build up an internal queuing mechanism that tries the live connect and then on error throw into a queue that's processed by an escalation or something.... Are you asking for marketing purposes or have a problem you are trying to solve? -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 1:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: General web services question ** Wondering - what are people doing about web services that fail or are down for a known period of time. Example: Maybe as part of your application you do a push fields to a web-service - to create a record in another system. However, that target system is down this weekend? How are people handling that? -John -- John Sundberg Kinetic Data, Inc. "Your Business. Your Process." WWRUG10 Best Customer Service/Support Award WWRUG09 Innovator of the Year Award 651-556-0930 I [email protected] www.kineticdata.com <http://www.kineticdata.com/> I community.kineticdata.com <http://community.kineticdata.com/> _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
