An Evaluation of Contemporary Commercial SOAP Implementations
Alex Ng, Shiping Chen, Paul A. Greenfield · 2004
SOAP is now widely accepted as the core transport protocol for Web Services but there are still open questions about whether SOAP can really meet the performance needs of business. This paper attempts to address some of these questions by evaluating and comparing the performance of several contemporary commercial SOAP implementations. The reported tests send a variety of SOAP messages to Web Services implemented using a number of current commercial SOAP implementations and measure several aspects of the Web Service’s performance. This paper presents a view of the current state of SOAP performance and gives some insight into the limitations of today’s SOAP implementations. 1.