Serialization is just another term for conversion to XML. >From Wikipedia: "Serialization involves taking a data structure or object and encoding it into a regular and usually architecture-independent form..."
However, on this note, perhaps there's a faster way to serialize using the underlying java engine, using something like stringbuilder rather than looping in CF. Anyone out there know? Maybe this would be an incredibly useful custom tag? Even better, I know that a WDDX add-in for .NET exists, I've not used it though. Is there a chance that CFWDDX tag would be faster? - Matt Small -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 1:04 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF webservice consumed via .NET > Looping over thousands of records to pass over a webservice is probably > going to be slow anyway, isn't it? If you have to pass the result as an XML string....then yes the above is true and why I'm asking for alternative solutions (like why the hell can't CF return something useful to languages other than CF) ;-) > > I ran into this exact same situation - I serialized about 14000 records > returned from the DB into XML to pass to a .NET webservice. It took > forever > to process. I was never sure whether it was the fact that I was > serializing > it, or the fact that I was passing 14000 records across the network to a > webservice to process. Perhaps you could send each row, one at a time? > Might that be faster than serialization/deserialization? I'm curious what you mean by "serialized"? are you using a function to do this (if so it's looping anyways)? or looping and converting each row to XML? BTW..in my tests...the conversion of a query to an XML string was 100% the cause of major slow down (like 5 times slower than just returning the query) Thans Matt Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:223236 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
