I did some tests just with axis a while ago, and
found that its performance deteriorates dramatically as the message size gets
larger. I posted my results in this mailing list under the subject
"Performance problems with RPC messages over
20k", but I don't think anyone has looked into it.
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Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 10:39
AM
Subject: Re: Axis performance, additional
info
I converted another Apache
SOAP 2.3.1 web service and test client to Axis 1.0. This service retrieves
about 75 records worth of data, versus the service mentioned below which
returns about 5 records worth of data.
This second test seems to be more evenly matched, SOAP averaged 2556
milliseconds per call versus 4850 milliseconds for Axis. That's about 1.89%
longer for Axis in this case. It seems the larger data set is leveling the
playing field a bit.
-
David
Jesse,
I've noticed the speed claims as well, but my experience tells me
otherwise. I'm not aware of any benchmarks.
I haven't modified any of
the logging defaults, so I believe it's set to INFO now. You are referring to
logging output and the log4j.properties in the axis.jar, are you
not?
My test did not include any time for console
output, it was just the time to put the call together, execute it, and get the
response back. By the way, I'm doing RPC style calls.
I'd
welcome any other suggestions for things to check. Or pointers to tests that
others have done.
Thanks,
-David
Hi David,
I've noticed that the Axis website claims speed
gains over ApacheSOAP,
but I've never really seen any evidence to back this
up. I'd be really
curious to know what kinds of benchmarks have been
done comparing the
performance of the two products.
I will ask,
though, whether or not debugging output could have been an
issue in your
scenario. I don't know exactly how you are using the
product, but I
know that initially we had the output set to DEBUG mode
for our entire
application (which included Axis) and this cost us a lot
in terms of
performance. Moving Axis to the INFO level sped things
up
dramatically.
Anyway, just a few random thoughts.
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Jess
Sightler
Programmer
Exim Technologies
131 Falls Street
Greenville
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Phone: 864-679-4651
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:01,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I took a web service I created with
Apache SOAP 2.3.1 and converted it
> to work with Axis 1.0. They are
pretty much the same actually. I got
> curious about the performance, so
I made a few simple timed tests, and
> I'm a little surprised about the
results. A SOAP call took 818
> milliseconds on average, and Axis took
3415 milliseconds. In other
> words, a call via Axis was roughly 4 times
longer. Ouch! I'm wondering
> if anyone else has migrated services from
the old SOAP to Axis, only to
> find them much slower?
>
>
- David
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