Forgive me, for I am about to rant. I've just been in an design meeting and can't fathom some of the decisions we've made.
Making that something reusable in expanding the scope of the project, so lets not write that as a service. We'll just use ADO.NET instead.
Out you Demons of Marginal Efficiency!
You know, when I have the opportunity to write one data access layer that any application could use vs. writing (and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting) that same code over and over and over and over again, that's not scope expansion -- that's sanity preservation. But oh no, we couldn't possibly even think outside of the box we've drawn around the project towards what make sense for an Enterprise Data Warehouse. I'm half surprised we're going to reuse the data now that I think about it.
This just strikes me as having a mentality that says "its best just to spend a nickel, we'll save a whole dime. Wow-wee!" Great, that's a wonderful ROI you b-school wannabes. But think about this math for a second: why not invest a quarter to save a dollar instead? I like that ROI a whole lot more.
Don't even get me started on the "you're just trying to make things complex for the sake of elegance" comment I heard. Ha! The use of Taniyama-Shimura conjecture to solve Fermat's Theory was an elegant use of complexity. I'm talking about good old SOAP and XML here folks. You know, the stuff I've been trying to get you to pay attention to for the last three years?
I just have the terrible feeling that until Microsoft has a three-mouse button click way to expose all the functionality in Access as a SOAP service that some people just aren't going to get it. But we'll never get there because "nobody" adopts Web Services, so why should anybody work toward making them available.
After Rant Mint
“You enter the first room of the mansion and it’s completely dark. You stumble around bumping into the furniture but gradually you learn where each piece of furniture is. Finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch, you turn it on, and suddenly it’s all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were. Then you move into the next room and spend another six months in the dark. So each of these breakthroughs, while sometimes they're momentary, sometimes over a period of a day or two, they are the culmination of, and couldn't exist without, the many months of stumbling around in the dark that precede them.”
--Andrew Wiles