Web Services Best Practices

This topic provides recommendations that you can implement to make your web services applications easier to understand and maintain.

Recommendation	Example
Use the HTTPS protocol to send data between Microsoft Dynamics NAV and the web service consumer. The examples in this section use the HTTP protocol to illustrate the setup, but we recommend that your solution uses transport-level security.	In the application that consumes the Microsoft Dynamics NAV web service, require that URIs are accessed by using HTTPS. For example, a more secure URI for the OData web services on your local computer is https://localhost:7048/DynamicsNAV/OData/.
Use singular forms of names. This provides meaningful singular entity names in the generated proxy classes.	When publishing page 21, Customer Card, use Customer as the service name instead of Customers or CustomerCard.
Avoid using spaces and other characters because they are transformed to underscores or other characters that may not be displayed as you want and could lead to ambiguity.	When publishing page 42, Sales Order, remove the space and use SalesOrder as the service name.
Use Pascal casing when you combine words. Pascal casing capitalizes the first character of each word, including acronyms and initialisms that are more than two letters long.	Use SalesOrder or ContactPerson as the service name.