Chapter 10: Creating A Client

Chapter 10

In this chapter we will build an example client application—Golf Reservation System Client—designed to connect to Golf Reservation System Server in Chapter 9, and we will do so using the Microsoft .NET Framework in conjunction with the controller design pattern. You will learn what the necessary components of building a .Net client application are as well as a common design pattern used for creating them: the controller. Understand that the controller is simply one of many design patterns available for creating .NET client applications, but it is the one we will use in this chapter.

We first discuss user requirements, how to understand and obtain information from XML Web services, the specifics of Golf Reservation System Client, the controller design pattern, and the procedure flow for our application. We then inspect relevant portions of Golf Reservation System Client to understand exactly what is happening where in the code. We conclude by reviewing the client application and brainstorming on how XML Web services and clients that are built to interact with XML Web services will evolve.