Alternative to heavy soap calls?

[Jaideep Kshirsagar]

Hi,

Does hooking up to a SOAP service takes a lot of time? It has been observed that considering initialization and query time, SOAP is on heavier side.
Is there any light alternative to SOAP?

Rgds,
Jai

[Masoud Kalali]

Hello,
Can you explain more about your problem?
alternative to SOAP is REST which does not uses ws-* standards. you may take a look at it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer .

new JAX-WS framework support it, you may take a look at http://metro.dev.java.net if you are interested.


hope it helps

[William Brogden]

Before SOAP there was XML-RPC - still supported by this toolkit and various commercial alternatives.

These days many people are reacting to the complexity of SOAP and the WS-* specifications by looking at REST style web services. As Masoud said, tell us more about your problem - how complex are the requests, how large are the responses, etc.

Bill