- From: Jeff Bone <jbone@jump.net>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:43:16 -0600
- To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@mitre.org>
- CC: xml-dist-app@w3.org
"Roger L. Costello" wrote: > "there's an evil little secret about Web services that most vendors > don't talk about. Web services' protocols are very fat, and that means > that Web services interactions over the network will be slow and eat up > a large chunk of bandwidth" IMO, that's a bit of a misstatement. It's not clear what "fat" means in this context. Some bright guys at IBM Almaden have demonstrated that the performance impact of XML encoding vs. an optimized binary encoding (for example, previously posted here and elsewhere) is usually essentially insignificant compared to other performance considerations. The problem is, I would assume, that "Web services" tend to be chatty, with lots of little round trips and a subtle statefulness between these individual communications. And that's a function of failing to realize that the API call model isn't well-suited to building communicating applications where caller and callee are separated by a medium (networks!) with variable and unconstrained performance characteristics / latency. REST! :-) jb
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