Which one is best Webservice or socket programing?

[vinoth Robert]

Hi friends,

I am developing a Java project.
The requirement is to read data which comes at high rate.

For example

20 systems produces some results. the result will be sent to my system(20 result may come per second/minute).

I have to read that 20 results, store it in my database and give acknowledgement to each of that.

In this case,

Which one is best Web service or socket programing ?

please help me...

:banghead:

[Kumaravadivel Subramani]

It's depends on your requirement purely. Before that, where the data come by which you want to catch and do all the necessary things? please provide the details. So that you will have proper suggestions. :)