RE: web services performance

[Rob Jellinghaus <ro...@unrealities.com>]

The masses are eager....

(be interesting to put Axis up against GLUE!  If GLUE is only 5x faster
than Apache SOAP, well, Axis is pretty close :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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>hi sanjiva,
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>any idea when Axis will be available? i'm writing a book
>on web services for prentice hall and already have chapters
>on J2EE/SOAP and .NET/SOAP. it would be great to include
>a chapter on AXIS/SOAP!
>
>cheers,
>graham
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sanjiva Weerawarana [mailto:sanjiva@watson.ibm.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:02 PM
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>> oh, so 5x wouldn't be good enough, huh? ;-)
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>> - graham
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>:-) It certainly would be .. however, you'd have to put the
>fastest possible JAXP parser with Apache SOAP and then try
>it .. Xerces is solid and all, but ain't the fastest by
>any means. 
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>Apache SOAP has never had any optimization effort put into
>it. I am currently making some mods that'll improve things
>a bit (someone found an obvious bottleneck with the way 
>SOAPMappingRegistry's were being created) but other than 
>that we never put any effort into making it fast. Axis is
>charged with that mission .. Apache SOAP is a robust 
>implementation (given the pretty large number of downloads
>its pretty impressive to not have any major bugs so far)
>and not one that concentrated on performance.
>
>Sanjiva.
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