If you want you can email Prof Madhusudhan Govindraju ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) can provide you with EXACT figures and memory profiles for using attachments .
regards Mayur Shetye --- Rajal Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done extensive load-testing with Attachments.. > and it seems to work > beautifully! The best thing about the Attachments as > regards performance is > that the message is entirely outside the SOAP > envelope.. This allows the > Axis engine to process the SOAP Headers without > having to read in the entire > 1 GIG of business data.. The AXIS engine thus > processes is very quickly.. > And passes on the 1Gig of data to the business > logic.. In all our testing, > the Axis engine was less than 3-5% of the total > transaction time.. And it > handled all requests without any errors! The errors > starting showing up in > the business logic layer when we had simulataneous > users of 500. But not the > axis layer.. > > I've published some of those numbers at: > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=177376 > > You can get the article without advertisements at: > http://www.informit.com/articles/printerfriendly.asp?p=177376 > > -- > Rajal > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Dev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: attachments > > > I am thinking of using attachments, but I have a few > questions: > > 1) > Given that the attachment sizes will be from 2KB to > maybe 1GB or even > more, can Axis deal with them in a performant way? > > 2) > I have the option of retrieving/sending content via > a plain HTTP servlet > using GET/PUT and I could make it look like it's > part of the same session > because the two servlets run in the same webapp and > I can set the same > session cookie for both the WS requests and the HTTP > requests. I know the > plain HTTP servlet performs as best as it can, > should I use this instead > of going thru the trouble of setting up attachments > and running into > perfromance issues with Axis? > > 3) > Do I need to enable the "streaming" mode for my Axis > service in order to > use attachments or make them perform well (I would > not like a 1GB > attachment to be cached in memory ...) > > 4) > For interop with .NET, I understand .NET only > supports DIME and not MIME. > How difficult is it to get both to perform in Axis? > > Thanks. > > Tim > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
