Irfan Anwar wrote:
>
> My guess is that XML parsing is the bottleneck in the apache SOAP
> implementation. This has very little to do with SOAP design. I
> think that someone should work towards writing a 'smart xml parser'
> targeted to SOAP messages. Any opinion?
The Apache xml-axis implementation is a rewite of the current Apache SOAP
implementation using a lower level and higher performing xml API named SAX.
There are other SOAP processors out there that take a more radical approach
and have their own custom XML parsers. For the moment, we have not taken
that step.
- Sam Ruby
