Paul Downey 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?
Indeed, I found the comment about the technology being performant enough to saturate a 1GB ethernet a bit interesting. What was the effective bandwidth transferred between machines vs the required bandwidth to make that exchange? It is apparent that data of any nature and volume can be transfered/transported on the network. The question is, how much network do you need to transfer a particular amount of bandwidth. We need a new measurement figure to indicate how much network resource is really required. I would guess that you wouldn't get this kind of performance across a mobile phone environment. Gregg Wonderly
