Re: XML versus SOAP/WSDL Performance

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>]

>>>>> Aiko Pras writes:

Aiko> From your mail I understand that your main concern is in the
Aiko> use of HTTP. To understand this better, did you want to say
Aiko> that: 1) the HTTP specifications are such that performance will
Aiko> always be a problem?  2) HTTP implementations are just lousy 3)
Aiko> the "mapping of SOAP to HTTP" specifications are such that
Aiko> performance will always be a problem?  4) (current) SOAP
Aiko> implementations do a lousy job of mapping to HTTP (this is what
Aiko> I believe Scott is saying)

I am saying:

X) I fail to see the benefit of having HTTP (or some other application
   layer protocol) between SOAP and a (secure) transport and thus I do
   not really care whether 1), 2), 3) or 4) are significant problems.

I suspect that some of the performance problems are indeed caused by
the way the SOAP implementations are hooked into HTTP implementations.
But I am just guessing here since I did not do my own measurements.

/js

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Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>



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