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An aggregated technique for optimization of SOAP performance in communication in Web services

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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) among other techniques implements Web Services (WS). SOAP offers a lightweight and simple mechanism for exchange of structured and typed information among computing devices in a decentralized, distributed computing environment. However, SOAP transmits data in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format. XML documents are huge in size and verbose thus becoming a major hindrance in performance for high-performance applications that process lots of data. In this paper, we develop, implement and evaluate SOAP performance optimization aggregated architecture in a disadvantaged network, i.e., 10 Mbps bandwidth. The aggregated architecture entailed: client side caching, document–literal Web Services Description Language (WSDL) description, simple database queries on the server side and Gzip compression technique. The experimental results showed a relatively high turnaround time and low network throughput. Nevertheless, improved performance of SOAP is evident in terms of bandwidth utilization and transfer time. This can be useful in disadvantaged networks.

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  1. Department of Information Technology, Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya

    Kennedy Mutange Senagi

  2. Department of Computing, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

    George Okeyo, Wilson Cheruiyot & Michael Kimwele

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Senagi, K.M., Okeyo, G., Cheruiyot, W. et al. An aggregated technique for optimization of SOAP performance in communication in Web services. SOCA 10, 273–278 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-015-0186-x

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