Using reflection to call an ASP.NET web service

Question

Say I have an ASMX web service, MyService. The service has a method, MyMethod. I could execute MyMethod on the server side as follows:

MyService service = new          


        

Answer 1

Although I don't know why Reflection is not working for you there (I assume the compiler might be creating a new class from your [WebService] annotations), here is some advice that might solve your problem:

Keep your WebService simple, shallow, in short: An implementation of the Facade Pattern.

Make your service delegate computation to an implementation class, which should easily be callable through Reflection. This way, your WebService class is just a front for your system - you can even add an email handler, XML-RPC frontend etc., since your logic is not coupled to the WebService, but to an actual business layer object.

Think of WebService classes as UI layer objects in your Architecture.