I have heard you can configure RMI, that it can
communicate through firewalls, so this is not
neccessarily a freature of SOAP.
I think a big feature of SOAP is that you are not bind
to a central Registry like in RMI. You can distribute
SOAP at different locations to provide reliability.
Ralf Bierig
--- Irfan Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here are some of the advantages of SOAP that I can
> think of:
>
> 1. It goes through firewalls
> 2. The clients don't need to be written in Java
>
> Am I right?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Oleg Dulin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:27 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SOAP Performance against RMI
>
>
> So, I am just curious, what's the point of SOAP then
> ? Why can't we use
> RMI, or CORBA for language independence ?
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Konstantin Gordiyenko wrote:
>
> > I've done some tests once. Compared to Sun RMI,
> SOAP
> > serialization/deserialization is 50-200 times
> slower, requires 5-20
> > (ten) times more memory and produces 5-20 (ten)
> times larger messages.
> > These ratios are mostly depend on the data
> structure, and almost don't
> > depend on the data size.
> >
> > Ralf Bierig wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > are there any performance measurement materials
> about
> > > SOAP against RMI in Web? Did somebody made a
> > > benchmarktest with SOAP (and maybe RMI)?
> > >
> > > I am looking for material to determine, if SOAP
> is
> > > good enough to fullfil the requirements I need
> for a
> > > project.
> > >
> > > Greetings
> > > Ralf
> > >
> > >
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>
>
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