MapPoint Webservice

[anamica]

We have a java client which calls map point webservice to get the nearest
locations for the given zip code. If the client program runs in a multi
threaded environment then how the requests from this client is handled by map
point. Will it handle them in parallel or one by one? What is the maximum
requests it can handle parallely?

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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:31:01 -0700, anamica

Post by anamica
We have a java client which calls map point webservice to get the nearest
locations for the given zip code. If the client program runs in a multi
threaded environment then how the requests from this client is handled by map
point. Will it handle them in parallel or one by one?

Without having tried this, my hunch is that the MapPoint web service
will handle them in parallel - after all, that is what web services
are made for - if you had your own web server making requests to the
MapPoint web service, and several users hitting your server (which
would result in these requests being handled in parallel of course),
it would not make sense to serialize on a per "client" (your web
server being a client as far as MapPoint web service is concerned)
basis on the MapPoint side.

Post by anamica
What is the maximum
requests it can handle parallely?

That, I cannot tell - it depends on the infrastructure Microsoft has
set up, and also maybe on your terms of service.

I guess Microsoft can handle more hits in parallel than you are
willing to pay for, though :-)

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Gilles [MVP].

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