Designing the web services

Our sample hotel reservation system is implemented using SOAP-based web services. As per the three basic entities used in the system, we can plan to have three web services explained as follows:

• GuestManagementService:

  GuestManagementService will be used to add, delete, or retrieve the details of guests in system. This web service consists of the following methods:

  • addGuest (name, address, age)

  • getGuestDetails (name)

  • deleteGuest (name)

• RoomManagementService:

  Adding, deleting, and retrieving the details of rooms are managed by the RoomManagementService which includes the following methods:

  • addRoom (roomNumber, roomType, roomSize)

  • getRoomDetails (roomNumber)

  • deleteRoom (roomNumber)

• ReservationService:

  ReservationService is used to manage the room reservations of the system, such as creating a new reservation, finding out the reservation details of a particular room, and removing an existing reservation. The following methods are included in this web service:

  • addReservation...