On 30 Jan 2007, at 16:52, Paul Fremantle wrote: > Here is some data that I think concludes that SOAP can scale to high > transaction rates (e.g. 300 million transactions a day). The test > isn't a real-world test, but it does show that the overhead of SOAP > processing is minimal with the latest toolkits. I'm currently looking into the throughput of a simple SOAP wrap to send an SMS message. The text "hello world" has an extra 6K of XML namespaces declarations, signatures, certificates, and then there is the underlying stack HTTPS down.
SOAP strikes me as the SUV of the protocol world. Of course it can be made to perform, but at what cost? -- http://blog.whatfettle.com
