Re: SOAP performance data and open benchmarks

> We found in our testing that XML messages, especially big business
> transactions, have excellent size reduction ratios.  You need to
compromise
> speed of compression/decompression against speed of data transfer.
> The other issue is that you will need to add decompression and compression
> filters yourself into standard SOAP packages that don't have this feature
> out of the box.  And all your clients must follow this protocol.
Internally
> this is easy to accomplish.  Externally is a different story.
>
> Leo Golubovsky
> [email protected]
>

Is there any statistics out there which provides guidance on the speed of
compression versus speed of data transfer? This would vary for the modes of
compression, of course.
As a client or server how do I decide if this particular reques/response
should be compressed or not? Is it practical to make this judgement call for
every request/response?

I'm curious how people handle this.

Thanks!
Neela

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