Re: SOAP performance data and open benchmarks

>
> That is an issue of much interest to me. Has anyone worked on a more or
> less standard API for (de)serialisation specific to SOAP? Has anyone
> tried to come up with schemes for making compressed or binarised SOAP
> work externally in a flexible and interoperable way (say through some
> sort of content-negociation, or different bindings for compressed and
> vanilla)?
>

What exactly is the issue with compression and interoperability? If the
compression algorithms are well known - gzip for example - is there still an
issue? I'm trying to understand what it is that we lose if chose to compress
SOAP messages.

Thanks,
Neela

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