On a similar note, it would be interesting to hold say the calling
end fixed (pick one- apache soap, glue, .net, whatever) and compare
the perf of glue vs. apache soap on the serving end. If that shows
glue an order of magnitude (10x) faster than apache soap then hats
off to you Graham!
Sanjiva.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: web services performance
> Hi Graham!
>
> I'm curious - does your 500messages/second figure rely on "99.44%" SOAP,
or
> do you use special GLUE->GLUE patterns to speed things up? I.e. should
you
> expect that same rate (or similar) from GLUE->.NET, say?
>
> --Glen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "graham glass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 10:29 PM
> Subject: RE: web services performance
>
>
> > hi sachin,
> >
> > please note that some web services platforms are
> > faster than others. just because RMI is 6x faster
> > than one particular implementation does not imply
> > that RMI is 6x faster than "web services".
> >
> > our own platform, "GLUE", is optimized for web
> > services and gets about 800 round trip messages
> > per second between two VMs running on the same
> > machine, and around 500 messages/second when
> > they're on different machines on a low speed LAN.
> >
> > cheers,
> > graham
> >
> > http://www.themindelectric.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sachin chaudhari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 9:03 PM
> > To: soap user list
> > Subject: web services performance
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did a simple test to see how much performance
> > penalty one will have to pay for Openness of SOAP.
> > RMI was 6 times faster than web services. I used a
> > very simple function call to test this. (I am not
> > claiming that I am right, but this is what I got!!!)
> >
> > I am sure other architects are also facing the
> > challenge of deciding what level of services one needs
> > to expose as web services. If we decide to expose
> > fundamental services then performace of the
> > applications will be very slow.
> >
> > I am very interested in knowing what you think about
> > the future of web services performance? Any benchmark
> > data available to compare web services & other
> > protocals like CORBA or RMI or servlets.
> >
> > Any comments will be highly appreciated.
> >
> > S
> >
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