Performance of SOAP in Web Service Environment Compared to CORBA

  • Authors:
  • Robert Elfwing;Ulf Paulsson;Lars Lundberg

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • APSEC '02 Proceedings of the Ninth Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Web Services is a new concept that promises flexibility and interconnection between different systems.The communication in Web Services uses SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol, which is based on XML.We have together with an industrial partner made experiments with SOAP in a Web Service environment to find out the response time using SOAP compared to CORBA.It turns out that a direct and naive use of SOAP would result in a response time degradation of a factor 400 compared to CORBA.We identified the major reasons for the poor performance of SOAP and evaluated some performance improvement techniques.After applying these the techniques, the performance of CORBA is 7 times better compared to SOAP.