Is kSoap fast enough for your needs? (not a troll, just interrested)

Clemens Eisserer <[email protected]> Sat, 06 Mar 2004 12:29:17 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.ksoap
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello!

First of all I want to thank everybody for helping such stupid newbies 
like me ;)

Because I want to switch from a big existing project which uses a 
self-written xml-based serilisation to kSoap I googled arround and 
analyzed what people had created with ksoap.

However I found some performance-analyses which have tested kSoap/kxml 
and conclused that j2me-platforms are not ready for soap-communikation 
just because the lack of performance. Of course this depends much what 
you want to do with ksoap, I only want to use it, because I need to call 
mostly simply send-one-object get-one-object RPCs, but sometimes I need 
to receive 100 objects. Although this objects are very simple (One 
String, three ints and one char) I'm concerned about how the performance 
will be on mobiles. A nokia-pepaer says that a http-roundtrip takes 
about 2-3seks, so how long will kSoap need to perfor such simple tasks 
on lower-end phones like the 3410 or compareable (all new and old 
siemens are equal slow).

It would be cool if you could post your experiences and maybe even some 
real-world benchmarks? That would be so cool.

Thanks a lot, lg Clemens

PS: Is kSoap2 a lot fast (>30%) than 1.2?