David Guest wrote: > Webservices does not seem that daunting a technology. My concern is > about standardising the minimum datasets and calls that they will > provide. Communication between disparate applications is much easier > with RPC/SOAP but you still don't want to write (n-1)! interfaces.
It's not as bad as you think, David! To get n information systems which each use their own dataset definitions and semantics to talk to one another, you only need write n(n-1) sets of interfaces, don't you?. For n > 4, n(n-1) < (n-1)! However, either way you are on a hiding to nothing. Bring on the minimum/core dataset definitions (or I should say, let the argy-bargy over what needs to be in the minimum/care dataset definitions commence!)! Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
