RE: benchmarking SOAP?

Alek,
Thanks for the info. This is very helpful. One of the issues I have seen is
large XML data (imagine XML based data about provisioning the phone record
of say 20,000 subscribers - pushed at 3:00 a.m. Sunday morning) being
compressed before it is transported. The SOAP method headers can stay
uncompressed. In this case - there is also performance improvements.
Ofcourse there is slight delay in packing the XML data and then unpacking
them at the destination.

Have u done some testing with packed XML data as well ? 

For reference u can see:
http://www.xmls.com/resources/xmlzip.xml
XMLZip is free download.

- Syed Ahmad
NetSpeak Corp

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksander Slominski [mailto:aslom@cs.indiana.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:57 PM
To: Mark Nottingham
Cc: XML Distributed Applications List; 'SoapRMI'
Subject: Re: benchmarking SOAP?


Mark Nottingham wrote:

> Are there any efforts under way to benchmark SOAP implementations?
> I've seen a number of people asking about it, and also some FUD
> (gudge knows what I'm talking about ;) about SOAP performance out
> there, so it would be good for SOAP to be able to represent itself
> well.

hi,

we are very interested in SOAP/XML performance (especially for
RMI/distributed component communication) so we have written a paper about
it, see:

  http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/soap/index.html#perf

as part of this paper we have written a test framework that included
testing serialization/deserialization, size overhead and round-trip
performance and made available at:

  http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/soap/sc00-tests/

i have also performed a simple benchmark of different XML parsers over a
set of SOAP messages (small 2.7K, middle size 27K and big 2.7M) and did
some evaluations - results and source code available at:

  http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/~aslom/exxp/

i am working on second version of this benchmark with updated list of
parsers and i welcome all comments about it.

thanks,

alek


>
> The latest questions have been in the OPES group [1].
>
> Cheers,
>
> [1] http://www.imc.org/ietf-openproxy/mail-archive/msg00792.html
>
> --

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