[Info-vax] AXIS2/C, gSOAP

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

On 2010-08-20 13:10, Neil Rieck wrote:
> On Aug 20, 6:46 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> wrote:
>> On 2010-08-20 01:07, Neil Rieck wrote:
>>
>>> I've got some great news regarding gSOAP. I have written some
>>> demonstration apps and can tell you that this thing is bloody fast.
>>
>> How are these apps runed ?
>> USing the bultin standalone http server in gSOAP ?
>> Using Apache or WASD ?
>>
>> Here are some values posted by Mark Daniel on the WASD
>> maillist :
>>
>>   >  Test-bench performance is again more than competitive with
>>   >  mod_gsoap. For 1,000 back-to-back requests of the WASD example
>>   >  SOAP application ECHO.C/ECHOCLIENT.C ...
>>   >
>>   >                        Seconds  Average mS  Requests/S
>>   >    Apache mod_gsoap      22.87        22.8          44
>>   >       WASD gSOAPrte       5.12         5.1         195
>>   >        WASD CGIplus       5.78         5.8         173
>>   >            WASD CGI      46.72        46.7          21
>>
>> Are these comparable with your results ?
>>
>>> I
>>> was a little uncomfortable with gSOAP at first and the main reason was
>>> because it wouldn't bounce malformed XML messages. It turned out that
>>> a relaxed mode is built in by default (so you can get a partial
>>> solution up-and-running in a short amount of time) but you can use
>>> option flags to put it into a few intermediate modes between relaxed
>>> and strict. Cool.
>>
>>> Neil Rieck
>>> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
>>> Ontario, Canada.
>>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/
>>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/docs/openvms_notes_axis2.html
>
> I don't have the numbers with me at the moment but gSOAP (via Apache
> mod_gsoap) was around 8-times faster than AXIS2 on Apache Tomcat.

And WASD with theh persistent server ("rte") environment seems to
be 4-5 times faster then Apache mod_gsoap... :-) From the stats
from Mark Daniel, at least.

> I
> was running on an Alpha Server DS20e with 3 GB and two CPUs. The
> OpenVMS flavor of gSOAP is written to link with so-called DEC
> languages like FORTRAN and COBOL etc where apps written in those
> programs would directly access databases.

Yes, that is how we/I run. gSOAP in "server" mode.
A C wrapper doing the gSOAP calles/APIs.
COBOL subroutine called from the C wrapper that
does the Rdb stuff (all application logic code).



> In my case it was better for
> me to write the whole thing in "C" then only convert SOAP messages
> into flat files which are passed onto BASIC apps via VMS queues.

"queue" is in "a real queue" or as in "mailbox" ?

One could have the BASIC app written as a queue symbiont,
I guess. But I also *guess* that you are using mailboxes, not ?