Here are some of the advantages of SOAP that I can think of:
1. It goes through firewalls
2. The clients don't need to be written in Java
Am I right?
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From: Oleg Dulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SOAP Performance against RMI
So, I am just curious, what's the point of SOAP then ? Why can't we use
RMI, or CORBA for language independence ?
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Konstantin Gordiyenko wrote:
> I've done some tests once. Compared to Sun RMI, SOAP
> serialization/deserialization is 50-200 times slower, requires 5-20
> (ten) times more memory and produces 5-20 (ten) times larger messages.
> These ratios are mostly depend on the data structure, and almost don't
> depend on the data size.
>
> Ralf Bierig wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > are there any performance measurement materials about
> > SOAP against RMI in Web? Did somebody made a
> > benchmarktest with SOAP (and maybe RMI)?
> >
> > I am looking for material to determine, if SOAP is
> > good enough to fullfil the requirements I need for a
> > project.
> >
> > Greetings
> > Ralf
> >
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