Paul What parts of the stack are you using to create 6k of namespaces etc? I'm guessing its not just SOAP. If you've added WSSec then you can't complain :-) You bought the Focus but then you spec'ed it up to be a Maverick.
Paul On 1/30/07, Paul Downey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- Paul Fremantle VP/Technology, WSO2 and OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair http://bloglines.com/blog/paulfremantle [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oxygenating the Web Service Platform", www.wso2.com
