Re: SOAP performance data and open benchmarks

hi ken,

to see our completely unbiased SOAP benchmarks, click on the following link
and then select "benchmarks" ;-)

http://www.themindelectric.com/glue/index.html?../products.header.html&devel
opers.html&../bottom.html

i get over 1,000 messages/second round trip between Java VMs on my laptop
with GLUE 3.3, which will soon be released with additional performance
optimizations.

bottom line: as long as you use a fast SOAP platform, there is little
performance reason to use stuff like RMI or CORBA. SOAP gives you great
interoperability, the flexibility of XML, and platform independence. on top
of this, modern SOAP implementations are usually easier to use than RMI.

cheers,
graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of implementing SOAP applications today
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Ken North
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOAP] SOAP performance data and open benchmarks


Is anyone aware of published SOAP benchmarks or other performance data?

Here's what I've come read in online discussions and a couple of papers:

1. Academic researchers found Fast-SOAP to be 100X slower than Sun's
implementation of Java RMI.
2. Systinet's recent SOAP implementation is reportedly comparable in
performance
to Java RMI.
3. Function-based RPCs (TCP) were 312% faster than object-based RPCs (Java
RMI)
in an IBM Java server benchmark.
4. SOAP is 10X slower than ODBC (i.e., database RPCs).

The DCOM vs. CORBA debate was rather heated for a time but published
benchmarks
of DCOM vs. CORBA are hard to come by. On the other hand, there is an Open
CORBA
benchmark and results have been published for various brokers.
Is anyone aware of a comparable activity to develop benchmarks for SOAP?

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