Dealing with the media is one of the main subjects that developers need to handle when building their websites, projects and their related mobile applications. It can be quite challenging especially if these projects are developed using different programming languages and development environments. It can also become a struggle when these systems are applied within load-balancing environments or limited-sized archiving solutions. At the same time, organizing the related websites and projects to share a common media service, can greatly improve the capability of administrating them with ease, keeping the consistency between different media files and the multi-system environment that uses them, reducing the time and effort needed for adding media capabilities to newer projects, or even making any desired changes for the media service functionality without affecting any project that uses it. In this paper, a proposed shared media web service architecture design for a related group of projects is presented whichuses a single media web service to support all applications, providing all the functionality needed to ensure consistency between them while at the same time reducing the time and effort needed for programmers and developers to maintain them in the best possible way.The code samples in this paper were implemented using the ASP.net programming languagebut the same architecture can be implemented in any other development language and environment.

Web Development Media Management Web Services