Re: [Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-02 Thread Rob Atkinson
Jonas Johansson wrote: >Aha, so for document/literal mode you don't really need any special >SOAP-engine at all then, you can just use your ordinary SAX-or-similar >XML parser? Yes, I can see how that works... > >I guess that streaming of SOAP messages in RPC mode would be unnecessary >or impossib

Re: [Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-02 Thread Jonas Johansson
Aha, so for document/literal mode you don't really need any special SOAP-engine at all then, you can just use your ordinary SAX-or-similar XML parser? Yes, I can see how that works... I guess that streaming of SOAP messages in RPC mode would be unnecessary or impossible since RPC's would not be pr

Re: [Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-01 Thread Jonas Johansson
Thanks for the response Chris, Nice to hear that I'm not alone in doubting that buffering of entire SOAP messages before sending is a must at the server! I just read something interesting ("Investigating the Limits of SOAP Performance for Scientific Computing" found at http://www.extreme.indiana.

Re: [Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-01 Thread Rob Atkinson
In the past I've implemented a gazetteer service with a WFS that simply auto-detected if the request was wrappen in SOAP (which is just an envelope if you dont use the intrinsically non-interoperable RPC mode) and responded with a SOAP wrapper if appropriate. It is unclear to me where and when

Re: [Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Holmes
Jonas Johansson wrote: Hi list, Maybe someone here has some knowledge on SOAP. I have been looking into the OGC move towards W3C Web Services standards for geospatial services and I have a question regarding performance when using SOAP. It is mentioned by many that large data sets is a perfor

[Geotools-devel] Large data sets and SOAP-based Geospatial Web Services

2006-06-01 Thread Jonas Johansson
Hi list, Maybe someone here has some knowledge on SOAP. I have been looking into the OGC move towards W3C Web Services standards for geospatial services and I have a question regarding performance when using SOAP. It is mentioned by many that large data sets is a performance issue when using SOAP