Performance Concerns for all Applications
Performance is troublesome when working with SOAP. As mentioned in Chapter 2, SOAP has some performance inhibiting problems right now that I doubt a standards committee will fix anytime soon because fixing them would add to SOAP’s complexity. Advanced features such as connection and resource pooling are only available where the complexity of the underlying protocol allows for such features. This is counter to one of the design goals of SOAP, which is to reduce the complexity of the programming environment for those situations where a complex protocol isn’t required.
SOAP applications respond to the same types of code optimization that all applications do. For example, you want to perform as much work ...
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