Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Abstract
The past number of years have seen the emergence of Service-Oriented Architectures as a dominant architecture for implementing enterprise scale distributed systems. Two main styles of SOA exist, namely SOAP based services and RESTful services. There has been much comment and debate on the pros and cons of each approach to implementing a SOA, a lot of which has surrounded the performance characterictcs of both approaches. In this paper, the authors presents the results of a performance analysis that was conducted on a set of test SOA scenarios implemented using both SOAP and RESTful approaches; in particular the caching capabilities of REST have been exploited with significant benefits accruing, an option not available with SOAP based approaches.
Recommended Citation
Markey, P., Clynch, G. : A performance analysis of WS-* (SOAP) and RESTful Web Services for Implementing Service and Resource Orientated Architectures, The 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T) Conference, Athlone IT, 2013
Publication Details
The 12th Information Technology and Telecommunications (IT&T) Conference, Athlone IT, 2013
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