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 more 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 | Web Services Research and Practices |
Number of pages | 22 |
Publisher | IGI Global |
Publication date | 01.12.2008 |
Pages | 1-22 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781599049045 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781616927257 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 01.12.2008 |