Web Services Scenario in an application

[sksandz]

I am a newbie in .Net, interested in web services application. I am planning to develop an e-commerce solution. The application will have a storefront which will display software products (different categories such as desktop solutions, utilities, editors etc) and users can buy the software product of his choice. I would like to use webservice in my above application. Can anybody help me out how webservices will help in my application? What are the possible scenarios or contexts where webservices can be used in the above application. Really helpful if somebody can provide me an answer in detail. If you require the details of functionalities of the application, i can post it. sunil

[Sendilkumar M]

Hi Sunil You didn’t tell much about your application environment .Will it be the set of independent application? I guessed it is single application. If my guess is correct you can’t use web service in your application environment. If an application wants to use the output of an application or an applications output will be used by variety of independent application then you can use web services. Otherwise web service will be completely out of the scenario. Or you thought to develop a distributed application go for COM+, MTS or .NET Remoting. M.Sendilkumar Thomson,B'lore,India

[sksandz]

Hi Sendil, Thanks for your quick reply. The application is similar like - http://www.software.net/[^] Can you please tell me is there any possibility in using web services in similar application scenario :(. While going through some resources i got an info that we can use web services in a scenario where user enters his pin and the system will look into shipping company databases online (databases of shipping companies for various rates for shipping) and then calculate the shipping charge. I don't know how to go ahead with this. But just wanted to share with you. Please let me know your comments.

[Sendilkumar M]

hi Sunil That scenario is clear. The two applications will talk each other. Online shopping and shipping company application. So we can use. In this scenario shipping companies are having a gateway to other application to know about their tariffs and goods on travel position tracking.The gateway are a web services. That may contain two different methods one will accept source and destination location and return tariff rate, and other one will accept way bill number and tell you where the goods now on travel. M.Sendilkumar Thomson,B'lore,India