On the Performance of Web Services

• Main Authors: Tari, Zahir (Author), Phan, Ann Khoi Anh (Author), Jayasinghe, Malith (Author), Abhaya, Vidura Gamini (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer software > Reusability.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Computer system failures.; Application software.; Computer Science.; Performance and Reliability.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; System Performance and Evaluation.; Computer Applications.; Computer Communication Networks.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

Performance of Web Services provides innovative techniques to improve the performance of Web Services, as well as QoS (Quality of Service) requirements. This includes Qos performance, reliability and security. The author presents two levels of Web Services: the “kernel” (ithe SOAP engine which deliv...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Background
• Benchmarking SOAP Bindings
• The Use of Similarity & Multicast Protocols to Improve Performance
• Network Traffic Optimisation
• Scheduling for Heavy Traffic
• Scheduling with Time Sharing
• Conclusion
• WSDL Specification for the Stock Quote Service
• SMP Message Schema
• A Sample SMP Message.