Hi Andreas, Amila, Wondering if it would be possible to run some standard benchmarks like TPC-APP <http://www.tpc.org/tpc_app/articulo.pdf> http://www.tpc.org/tpc_app/articulo.pdf and share the results with all (Probably a link on Axis2 home page to these would help). I am suggesting this only as a way to compare software and not to compare hardware. So one approach is to implement this needed components for tpc-app using Axis2, cxf etc and share these implementations so that interested folks can download these and compare the results by running on their hardware so they will know which s/w performs better? Wondering if folks would take a stab at implementing TPC-App on Axis2/CXF and share them. cheers, -- Yash
_____ From: Amila Suriarachchi [mailto:amilasuriarach...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 10:28 PM To: axis-dev@ws.apache.org Subject: Re: Request for a Project On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Andreas Veithen <andreas.veit...@gmail.com> wrote: It really depends on your interests and the kind of contribution your instructor is expecting. One idea that comes to my mind is helping us optimizing the performance of Axis2. There are several reasons why this would be interesting to us: hi Andreas, Actually I had some investigations on Axis2 performance and possible ways to improve them some times back. please see my comments below. - There have been reports [1] that the performance of Axis2 1.5 is not as good as expected. For this I asked him to test with ADB generated code but there was no reply. When it comes to this kind of performance issue I think most of the problem relates to the way Data binding framework work. For an example ADB generated code directly get the underline stax parser to build the java object and serialise the response directly to stream writer. Therefore Axiom serilization deserilalization only relates to soap envelop parsing. But if some intermidiate handler builds the soap envelop (eg rampart) then it depends on the Axiom performance. This direct serialization and deserialization happens for jaxbri and xmlbeans as well. But for the POJO it does not read from the underline stax parser and always creates an intermediate Axiom object. And also it parses the whole bean class structure using reflection for each and every request. So I think these two factors contribute most for POJO inefficiency compared to generated code. I hadsome performance testing with a wsdl which has many types with a request around 4kb As I remember axis2-ADB performs better then cxf-jaxbri performs slightly better than axis2-jaxbri then axis2-xmlbeans but I haven't done the jaxws (axis2, cxf) and POJO. thanks, Amila. - To my knowledge, we don't do systematic performance tests. On the other hand, performance is an important quality attribute for a Web service framework. - I did some profiling on Axiom (the XML object model used by Axis2) and there is definitely room for improvement. Depending on your available time, this could involve the following tasks: - Define a set of typical use cases for which we want to test/compare performance. - Define a test methodology and select appropriate tools. - Implement the use cases using Axis2 and some other SOAP stacks (CXF, JAX-WS reference implementation, etc.). - Measure the performance and compare the results obtained from different Axis2 versions and different SOAP stacks. - Investigate what changes (between different Axis2 versions) or architectural differences (between different SOAP stacks) can explain the observed results. - Investigate where and how Axis2 performance can be improved. Of course, for all these tasks, you would interact with the developer community to get the required input. Regards, Andreas [1] http://markmail.org/thread/vkxfbebh7opwo46d On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:40, ishara karunarathna <isharaar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear sir, > I'm a undergraduate student from University of Maoratywa, Sri Lanka. I'm > studying my 3rd academic year (it is a 4year degree program on computer > Science and Engineering ). in this academic year i have to join to an open > source project and contribute to it for 12 weeks. I can choose any open > source project based on my interest. My instructors will evaluate my work at > the end. > > I like to join Axis2 project but I need some help to know how can I join to > Axis 2 and what can I do. > I'm experienced in java language. So please send me some help me with some > starting points to start with. > Thank you. -- Amila Suriarachchi WSO2 Inc. blog: http://amilachinthaka.blogspot.com/
