1. 19-20 November, 2008 | Copenhagen

2. NAV05 Ilana Smith Program Manager Microsoft Corporation

3. “Web services provide a standard means of interoperating between different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks” The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C )

4. ●Leverage Industry Standard ●Leverage Existing Functionality ● Less development ● Faster development ● Cheaper development ●Leverage Developer Skills Sets ●Leverage Strategic Direction

6. Service Tier Web Services Client Services ApplicationApplication Meta data provider Class Library Client Tier Microsoft SQL Server Form Builder Data Binder Role Tailored Client Database Tier

7. ●No new concepts; No new objects ● Pages and Codeunits are potential Web Services ●No replication of functionality ●Same ● Data ● Business Logic ● Security ● Validation

8. ●High level abstraction ●Many provided features ● Default methods ● Optimistic Concurrency ● Triggers and validation ●All table-backed Pages supported ● Includes Pages with Sub-Pages (lines)

10. ●Low level abstraction ●Provides targeted service or logic ●Limitations ● Simple types ● XMLPorts ●Considerations ● Concurrency ● Security

11. ●Codeunit methods can extend page methods ●Each method’s first parameter of type matching Page’s table ●Register Codeunit under same name as Page Do not publish

12. PROCEDURE CapitaliseName@1(Cust@1000 : Record 18); BEGIN Cust.Name := UPPERCASE(Cust.Name); Cust.MODIFY(TRUE); END;

13. ●Security ● Windows integrated ● Access control consistent with client ●Transactions ● Per message/method

14. ●Considerations ● Re-Use or Clone? ● UI management ● Errors thrown as exceptions

15. RoleTailored Client Classic Client Web Services GUIAllOWEDISSERVICETIER Pages: CurrFieldNo <> 0 (Not preferred)

16. ●Putting Data into NAV ●Pulling Data out of NAV ●Running NAV business logic

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