Webservice Vs Direct Connect to DB

Experts,
In our application, we're connecting to legacy application using web service call. Here, I wanted to know the benefit of using Web Service call or direct connect to DB using Open SQL.
Please advice which one is best. Here I was not able to come to any conculsion.
Regards,
Ramki.

Hi,
>Here I was not able to come to any conculsion.
Maybe you could think of what will happen if there is a structure change in a table ? This might help you to come to a conclusion...
Direct external access to a database is EVIL and should be avoided at any price.
By the way, if you access SAP data directly at database level, you loose SAP support...
Regards,
Olivier

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