Toward characterizing the performance of SOAP toolkits

Author

Govindaraju, Madhusudhan ; Slominski, Aleksander ; Chiu, Kenneth ; Liu, Pu ; van Engelen, Robert ; Lewis, Michael J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

8 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

365

Lastpage

372

Abstract

The SOAP protocol underpins Web services as the standard mechanism for exchanging information in a distributed environment. The XML-based protocol offers advantages including extensibility, interoperability, and robustness. The merger of Web services and grid computing promotes SOAP into a standard protocol for the large-scale scientific applications that computational grids promise to support, further elevating the protocol´s importance and requiring high-performance implementations. Various SOAP implementations differ in their implementation language, invocation model and API, and supported performance optimizations. In this paper we compare and contrast the performance of widely used SOAP toolkits and draw conclusions about their current performance characteristics. We also provide insights into various design features that can lead to optimized SOAP implementations. The SOAP implementations included in our study are gSOAP 2.4, AxisC++ CVS May 28, AxisJava 1.2, .NET 1.1.4322 and XS0AP4/XSUL 1.1.

Keywords

Internet; XML; access protocols; application program interfaces; electronic data interchange; grid computing; open systems; .NET 1.4322; API; AxisC++ CVS May 28; AxisJava 1.2; SOAP toolkits; Web services; XML-based protocol; XSOAP4/XSUL 1.1; communication performance optimization; distributed environment; gSOAP 2.4; grid computing; high-performance implementation; invocation model; scientific computing; Computer applications; Computer science; Corporate acquisitions; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Optimization; Robustness; Simple object access protocol; Web services; XML; Communication Performance; Grid Computing; SOAP; Scientific Computing; Web Services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid Computing, 2004. Proceedings. Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on

ISSN

1550-5510

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2256-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GRID.2004.60

Filename

1382853