savas parastatidis

Web Services platforms – Comparisons?

Hey all. Our bioinformatics group has been using Axis 1.1 for some time now and they have been pushing it to its limits in terms of performance (i.e. size of messages it can handle and number of messages per second).

I have advised them to consider other Java (unfortunately they can’t move to .NET) Web Services platforms (e.g. Sun’s WSDP, IBM’s WebSphere, etc.). However, before they start looking into these platforms they want to have a look at a quantitative comparison (including Axis). Since I am going to be leaving Newcastle quite soon, I am afraid I don’t have the time to do the comparison myself. I started looking on the Web but without great success. So, I was wondering whether readers of this blog can point me to papers/articles/web pages. Many thanks in advance!

9 responses to “Web Services platforms – Comparisons?”

  1. Dilip
    OK so you have decided where to move? The giant sucking sound just got louder…
  2. Savas Parastatidis
    Hi Dilip. I have decided to leave and I have almost decided where to go. I am hoping to be in a position to say more soon.
  3. Dan Diephouse
    I have done a qualitative comparison between a bunch of different java soap stacks here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/XFIRE/Stack+Comparison However IBM and Sun’s stacks are not included. If you are looking for java performance XFire is excellent, although it does lack in terms of going from WSDL->Code (as opposed to Code->WSDL).
  4. Stefan Tilkov
    As most commercial companies, they don’t allow for public benchmarks, but I can highly recommend Systinet’s stack (SSJ) – it’s in my experience one of the fastest, most reliable and interoperable stacks you can get.
  5. Savas Parastatidis
    Thanks guys!
  6. Prakash
    From a pure performance point of view – I have heard good things about Glue – but these are moving targets!
  7. Spiros Tzavellas
  8. Bin Zhou
    How about Axis2? It is a re-design version and hope it will be more outstanding w.r.t performance.
  9. Savas Parastatidis
    Unfortunately Axis 2 is not an option due to its alpha status. It’s promising but not something that can be considering at the moment.