8.5. Managing Complex Web Service Interactions
An application may have multiple interactions with the same Web service, it may access different Web services, or it may expose many Web service endpoints. There may be different types of interactions. An application may be both a service and a client. A service endpoint may receive documents of multiple types and hence needs to handle them accordingly. All this makes for complexity in managing Web service interactions.
Message-level metadata and a canonical data model are common helper strategies that support complex interactions, and they are good building blocks for adding functionality to a Web service message exchange. By consolidating Web service endpoints, you can make an application's Web ...
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