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http://weblogs.asp.net/mattavis/archive/2004/08/23/219200.aspx
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Richard Blewettt - DevelopMentor
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Hello Richard,
Personally I think they shoiuld delete it from the framework - I have
never, in production, used the SOAP formatter its slower and adds no benefit
The SOAP formatter, while less speedy than the binary formatter, is
necessary for SOA implementations. It is, in fact, essential.
One of the problems with HTTP/Binary formats is that we have optimized for
speed to the detriment of maintainability.
However, in the wild majority of apps that expose an EXTERNAL interface,
speed is not a driving factor, while maintenance costs will far far outweigh
the benefit of speed *on that interface* over its lifetime.
One of the advantages of SOA-based applications is that you can create a
discoverable external interface as part of a previously internal one simply
by adding a proxy. In other words, if you have a web layer in a farm that
is accessing a business layer over HTTP/Binary, then a well-executed
architecture would also provide a SOAP proxy to call the Binary objects,
thus allowing ANY application that needs the services of the business layer
to call it, without it being created at the same time by the same team.
The elements of discoverability and the ability to see and debug information
flowing over the network, is important in that case, even though the
interface was not originally developed for those needs. Clearly the proxy
can be developed on an as-needed basis. However, the cost of developing a
small integration object of this kind is low compared to the cost of
developing integration code that has to cross binary boundaries, especially
if the calling environment is not .Net or Windows.
HTH,
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Richard Blewett said:
The only thing the SOAP formatter is useful for is to be able to look
at
the message structure on the wire when debugging.
Personally I think they shoiuld delete it from the framework - I have
never, in production, used the SOAP formatter its slower and adds no benefit
HTTP/Binary is just as firewall friendly as HTTP/SOAP unless the
firewall
is using content based filtering (which very few do in my experience).
Regards
Richard Blewett - DevelopMentor
http://www.dotnetconsult.co.uk/weblog
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No firewall hassle?
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Hi,
I unerstand that if you choose IIS to host your .Net Remoting components
with HTTP channel and SOAP formatter, you get the built-in security and
configuraion features of IIS. Also we can expose it to use for the web
services clients. But using HTTP with SOAP has got the least performance
amoung all others (ex TCP with Binary etc).
The question is what are the advantages of using http with SOAP over http
with Binary formatter?
What are the other benifits of using IIS with http and SOAP?
Pankaj
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