"Fast Infoset" and "Fast Web Services" are two separate terms originated
by Sun. "Fast Infoset" is similar to my own XBIS (http://www.xbis.org)
representation for XML (which preceded Sun's public efforts), and
basically reduces the size and processing overhead of XML by using
binary representations to replace element and attribute names, while
still sending data values in text form. As such, "Fast Infoset" can be
applied to arbitrary XML.

"Fast Web Services", on the other hand, uses binary encoding of the
actual data values - so that ints, for instance, are sent as binary
rather than text. "Fast Infoset" requires generating encoder and
decoders which are specific to the document format (i.e. schema) being
sent. In theory this should be considerably faster than the text-based
representation of "Fast Infoset", but Sun's results don't really appear
to live up to the potential of the approach.

  - Dennis

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Dennis M. Sosnoski
SOA and Web Services in Java
Axis2 Training and Consulting
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Thilina Gunarathne wrote:
> Hi,
> Axis2 supports FastInfoset [1].. Looks like FastInfoset is the result
> of the above paper...
>
> thanks,
> Thilina
> [1]https://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/xml/fastinfoset/
>
> [1]http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjava.sun.com%2Fdeveloper%2FtechnicalArticles%2Fxml%2Ffastinfoset%2F&ei=aa_wRuisGYSwea-41N4G&usg=AFQjCNEmPCGNIE2v-bwCnOntes5wPvauSw&sig2=0qggwDqYSArmhNZ4XDHKyA
> On 9/18/07, Thomas Kettenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> SUN has a nice paper about fast webservices. They don't send XML documents 
>> but a binary version of it. Anybody interessented can find it here:
>>
>> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/fastWS/
>>
>> Can this be done with Axis?
>>
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