Performance of Web Service Clients

[da...@bt.com]

Hi,

	I'm in the Web Services team at BT. We use Axis a lot, as it works,
and scores highly on interoperability.

	For the last couple of months I've had to look at calling web
services secured with various kinds of Transport Security, i.e. Basic
Authentication with and without SSL, and Client Certificate Authentication.

	The clients I've been using for the tests are WebLogic Server 7.0
Service Pack 2, .NET (c#) and Axis 1_1 RC2.

	According to my tests, the Axis Client is slower on all
measurements. This is not a criticism, maybe Axis isn't  intended for
performance, but I wondered if anyone could comment on this ?

	Is there anything I should be doing to improve the performance of
Axis Clients ?

	If anyone knows anything about performance, and needs more detail, I
can supply it.

Thanks

Dave

Re: Performance of Web Service Clients

[Davanum Srinivas <di...@yahoo.com>]

Dave,

Can you please try latest CVS / Nightly Build. Checked in fixes for performance a few days back.
I'd like a comparison between latest CVS and what you have now. (I definitely know that 1.1RC2 had
a lot of problems, so you might want to use 1.1Final.). Please post the results here. 

Also any code, wsdl, soap traces from tcpmon would be really useful to diagnose and rectify
problems. we'd really appreciate this info in the form of a bug report so that we don't lose track
of this important information. (http://ws.apache.org/axis/bugs.html)

Thanks,
dims

--- dave.prout@bt.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 	I'm in the Web Services team at BT. We use Axis a lot, as it works,
> and scores highly on interoperability.
> 
> 	For the last couple of months I've had to look at calling web
> services secured with various kinds of Transport Security, i.e. Basic
> Authentication with and without SSL, and Client Certificate Authentication.
> 
> 	The clients I've been using for the tests are WebLogic Server 7.0
> Service Pack 2, .NET (c#) and Axis 1_1 RC2.
> 
> 	According to my tests, the Axis Client is slower on all
> measurements. This is not a criticism, maybe Axis isn't  intended for
> performance, but I wondered if anyone could comment on this ?
> 
> 	Is there anything I should be doing to improve the performance of
> Axis Clients ?
> 
> 	If anyone knows anything about performance, and needs more detail, I
> can supply it.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 


=====
Davanum Srinivas - http://webservices.apache.org/~dims/

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