web services question

[inzo21]

Hello all,

 

I'm trying to get a handle on web services and have a couple fo general questions for the experts out there.

 

Specifically, what I want to do is have web services installed on a web site where an access database file resides. The web services woudl publich methods to add, query and remove content to the database.

 

My questions are:

 

1. when constructing the methods to access and work with the database, should I wrap these in the actual web services or compile them in a .dll and call them using web services?

 

2. Is is possible to have a subroutine as a web method and not just a function?

 

3. When calling extrenal .dll froma web service, do I use the same techniques as I would with any windows forms application (i.e. creating a reference to the .dll, import statements, etc.)

 

4. Can web services talk to other web services and are there specific problems inherent with this?

 

Thanks again in advance and have a great evening.

 

 

inzo

[Robby]

1 I prefer DLL

2 Yes, but you may consider keeping it as a function and simply returning a boolean to indicate success or fail of the delegate or sub (called from the web method).

3 Yes

4 Yes, no problems that I know of.