Failover

[Jon]

I want to add failover capability to my web service.

Is it possible to specify two possible URLs for a service (eg have
server1.com/service.asmx and server2.com/service.asmx and the client selects
on or the other)

Should I be looking at WS-Addressing for this. Does anyone have a link for
more info?

Thanks
Jon

 

[DC]

what you can do is build intelligence into your client-side proxies, so that
they walk through a list of web service URLs (maybe read in from app.config)
and use the first one that works. They retry after a backoff interval,
etc.

most people just run wsdl.exe and generate a client-side proxy and they're
done. There's nothing wrong with modifying the generated code to do
something more intelligent. That's what I'm suggesting here.

I don't know of anything automated for this, but it shouldn't be too hard to
write it.

-D

 

[Jon]

Thanks mate. I think thats the way I will go.

Jon