Abstract
A major drawback of using SOAP for application integration is its enormous demand for network bandwidth. Compared to classical approaches, like Java-RMI and Corba, SOAP messages typically cause more than three times the network traffic. In this chapter we will explore compression strategies and give a detailed survey and evaluation of state of the art binary encoding techniques for SOAP. We also introduce a new experimental concept for SOAP compression based on differential encoding, which makes use of the commonly available WSDL description of a SOAP Web service. We not only conduct a detailed evaluation of compression effectiveness, but also provide the results of execution time measurements.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Modern Technologies in Web Services Research |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Publication date | 01.12.2007 |
| Pages | 76-97 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781599042800 |
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| Publication status | Published - 01.12.2007 |