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Impact of SOAP Implementations in the Performance of a Web Service-Based Application

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Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops (ISPA 2006)

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This article recalls, from the literature, a performance study of a web service. That study, based on the layered queuing network (LQN) paradigm, is now addressed following the PUMA approach to obtain a new performance model, in this case in terms of Petri nets, for the target web service. Such Petri net model is used to extend the previous LQN results with respect to some key web service performance aspects: the SOAP toolkit and the XML parsers. Actually, this paper aims to explore through a case study some of the main concerns of web services performance at the middleware layer. The acquired background is meant to start to develop a methodology, based on the SPE principles, useful to analyze web services performance.

This work was supported by the projects TIC2003-05226 and DPI2006-15390 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and IBE2005-TEC-10 of the University of Zaragoza.

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  1. Dpto. de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, C/María de Luna,1, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    Elena Gómez-Martínez & José Merseguer

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  1. Department of Computing, School of Informatics, University of Bradford, BD7 1DP, Bradford, U.K.

    Geyong Min

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione - Second, University of Naples - Italy, Real Casa dell’Annunziata - via Roma, 29 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

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  3. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada

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Gómez-Martínez, E., Merseguer, J. (2006). Impact of SOAP Implementations in the Performance of a Web Service-Based Application. In: Min, G., Di Martino, B., Yang, L.T., Guo, M., Rünger, G. (eds) Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking – ISPA 2006 Workshops. ISPA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4331. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11942634_90

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