I certainly expect Axis to outperform to Apache SOAP. However,
comparing Axis and Apache SOAP right now is not useful (IMO)
until Axis supports SOAP Attachments too.
I believe GLUE does support SOAP Attachments.
Sanjiva.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 1:37 AM
Subject: Re: web services performance
> Just as an FYI, Axis on two of my machines benchmarked at about 4X and
about
> 8X the performance of ApacheSOAP 2.2 a few weeks ago (the 8X was certainly
> due to the fact that something in Axis (likely the parser) was able to
> utilize the dual processors on my work box to great effect). Still don't
> get no 500 msgs/second, though.... :) That said, Axis as it stands hasn't
> been seriously combed for optimizations either.
>
> --Glen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sanjiva Weerawarana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 12:01 AM
> Subject: Re: web services performance
>
>
> > > oh, so 5x wouldn't be good enough, huh? ;-)
> > >
> > > - graham
> >
> > :-) It certainly would be .. however, you'd have to put the
> > fastest possible JAXP parser with Apache SOAP and then try
> > it .. Xerces is solid and all, but ain't the fastest by
> > any means.
> >
> > Apache SOAP has never had any optimization effort put into
> > it. I am currently making some mods that'll improve things
> > a bit (someone found an obvious bottleneck with the way
> > SOAPMappingRegistry's were being created) but other than
> > that we never put any effort into making it fast. Axis is
> > charged with that mission .. Apache SOAP is a robust
> > implementation (given the pretty large number of downloads
> > its pretty impressive to not have any major bugs so far)
> > and not one that concentrated on performance.
> >
> > Sanjiva.
> >
> >
