I personally think, the SOAP is just another buzz word. There is no point at
all...
Industry needs to make money somehow.
(CORBA, RMI, ...) to SOAP == new more powerfull hardware, money for
development, support...
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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> Oleg Dulin
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