Comments on: SOAP and High Performance: An Oxymoron? http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/ Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:30:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: LC http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-498 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:07:57 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-498 You missed the point... Use-cases will drive the decision. If you have a business critical service requiring integration with a multitude of client platforms (from VB6 client apps to IBM MQSeries), the *safest* bet is a SOAP Service over HTTP. On the other-hand (the article example - financial services) where performance has a much higher priority - SOAP payload may not be a consideration. Simply put SOAP serves a need, however there are other solutions to other problems too. You missed the point…
Use-cases will drive the decision. If you have a business critical service requiring integration with a multitude of client platforms (from VB6 client apps to IBM MQSeries), the *safest* bet is a SOAP Service over HTTP. On the other-hand (the article example - financial services) where performance has a much higher priority - SOAP payload may not be a consideration. Simply put SOAP serves a need, however there are other solutions to other problems too.

]]> by: Dave http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-497 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:25:35 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-497 Okay maybe 3k is a slight overstatement. But 1/2 - 1k would be correct! That's still way too much overhead. The corrected title of this posting should read: "SOAP and high-performance: a moron". -- Dave Okay maybe 3k is a slight overstatement. But 1/2 - 1k would be correct! That’s still way too much overhead.

The corrected title of this posting should read: “SOAP and high-performance: a moron”.

– Dave

]]> by: Dave http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-496 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:22:27 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-496 ICE? YAML? JSON? Take your pick! But anyone who thinks that 3k of deep-nested XML in a SOAP envelope t to send a basic 1-string snippet of information between 2 apps "does not have a performance issue" needs their head read! ICE? YAML? JSON?

Take your pick!

But anyone who thinks that 3k of deep-nested XML in a SOAP envelope t to send a basic 1-string snippet of information between 2 apps “does not have a performance issue” needs their head read!

]]> by: LC http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-495 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:16:07 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-495 The word is interoperability. In the pragmatic world, across vendor frameworks, various standards and platforms, SOAP services the interoperability problem very well. Performance is a consideration, but when two systems can not communicate with each other, performance is not the first NFR to be considered. In summary I guess, sometime performance is a trade-off for interoperability The word is interoperability. In the pragmatic world, across vendor frameworks, various standards and platforms, SOAP services the interoperability problem very well. Performance is a consideration, but when two systems can not communicate with each other, performance is not the first NFR to be considered.

In summary I guess, sometime performance is a trade-off for interoperability

]]> by: Jim Cakalic http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-494 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:08:01 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-494 Hmm ... sounds like a reinvention of JINI/JavaSpaces. Hmm … sounds like a reinvention of JINI/JavaSpaces.

]]> by: Anonymous http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-493 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:31:01 +0000 http://tssblog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/07/27/soap-and-high-performance-an-oxymoron/#comment-493 No, this view is not entirely correct... SOAP by itself has no performance issue, http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/250512.htm No, this view is not entirely correct…
SOAP by itself has no performance issue,

http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/250512.htm

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