Data Intensive Web Service

Question

Hi  I am developing a web service for a customer hosting an online job application form. The customer has about 200 input fields ( mostly boolean values of Yes / No questions  string and integers ) which he will be sending to my webservice . Currently I have just written the skeleton code for my web service which is a simple web methodd that accepts 10 i/p fields  validate them and write them to my database My question is what is the best way to accept and send such a large flow of input data? Should I use this same simple function with i/P parameters  or should I go for a structure  collections etc? Keeping in mind that this is an online job application feeding data to my webservice  what is teh best approach one must follow when desiging such data intensive yet time critical web services? Thanks Meena .

Mahesh Chand · Answer

Either XML DOM object or XML stored in a string. Doesn't matter. Eventually it goes as string to the service any way. HTTP only allows you to get or set strings. Rest every thing is an illusion. Something like this would work. VALUE VALUE Then in the Web service load this in an XML node and read the values of parameters.

katana · Answer

XML or XML as a string.

Mahesh Chand · Answer

The best approach is to get XML data feed. The client application will be responsible for building the XML and Web service accepts parse and validate the XML file.