Plan for Service Development

Before you begin development, you should have a thorough understanding of your current business processes and future needs. Determine how your system will interact with services and resources to meet your business requirements. Also consider how you can re-use services and processes that were created for other projects or exposed as Web services. It is helpful to prepare a system configuration diagram that shows the resource types and names of the various service interactions. In most cases, this first phase is done outside of Sybase WorkSpace.

• Identify a naming strategy for the services you are developing. You will want to be sure that your strategy prevents service names and target namespaces from being duplicated.

  At the time you name your service, the service is assigned the default target namespace, however the name and namespace can be modified when using the Summary page of the service editor. When creating the services package, services are checked and an error is reported if a service name and target namespace is duplicated.

• Know how to access cheat sheets and online help.
• Set up connection profiles for the services you plan to develop.