What do web services allow you to do?
seperate out the different tiers of your application
encapsulate several processes into a single service, ready for consumption by an external party
Why are services beneficial
the seperation of concerns, although not unique to service-orientated architecture, allows for fault tolerance, in that if one aspect of an application or organisation goes down, it has minimal impact on
other business units/concerns/applications.
it allows for easier maintenance as the single offending unit can be fixed/tested/deployed in isolation without interupting the other services
a service exposes one or more endpoints.
each endpoint exposes one or more service operations.
the endpoint defines:
* an address where the service can be found
* a binding that contains the infomration that a client must provide to the service
* and a contract that defines the functionality the service provides to the client
Steps in Creating a WCF Service
1. Define a contract
- A contract defines what operations the service supports
- An 'operation' => a web service method
- A contract is created by defining an interface; each method in the interface corresponds to a specific service operation
- Each interface (contract) must have the ServiceContractAttribute
- Each operation (service method) must have the OperationContractAttribute
- Methods can exist within the contract without having the OperationContractAttribute but they won't be exposed by the service
2. Implement the contract (interface)
- Create a new class that implements the interface defined with the ServiceContractAttribute
- Implement each method from the Interface that has the OperationContractAttribute
3. Host and Run the WCF Service
- Create a base address for the service.
- Create a service host for the service.
* import the System.ServiceModel.Description namespace
* create a new ServiceHost instance; pass the type of the Service you want to host and its base address to the ServiceHost constructor
* eg new ServiceHost(typeof(MyService), serviceBaseAddress);
* wrap the following in a try-catch block, which catches CommunicationException and Aborts the Host when caught
1. // add an endpoint that exposes the service
selfHost.AddServiceEndpoint(
typeof(IMyService),
new WSHttpBinding(),
"MyService");
2. // Enable metadata exchange.
3. // Open the service host
selfHost.Open();
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