On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Shaf <[email protected]> wrote: > The business desires a web service to allow clients to retrieve data > from our database. > > In it's XML format, the data is over 150 megs of data. > > I'm of the position that it would NOT be a good idea to build the > service, and there are better ways do bulk downloading. -------------------
Did you try json instead of straight XML yet? Are your TAGs <SoOverWhelmingInSizeButNoRealValue> ? Is this done once a day or many times an hour? The data your present is it "everything all at once" and maybe you could publish an update method to minimize the same data over and over to the same client? Back to your question. I would still keep it as a web service and refactor that service. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell
