Web Services: How slow/fast they are

[Gisa]

Subject: Windows distributed app
Data layer: SQL Server ( on separate machine )
Middle layer: WebServices on IIS ( on separate machine )
Questions:
1) How much Web Service are faster/slower compared to
other solutions for middle layer. Are there some (
benchmark or similar ) results which can at least
indicate me that figures.
2) How to configure Web Server ( machine resoureces and
Set up ) to get fastes possible Web Server - Web Services
response. The case could be system with up to 200 WinForm
Clients.

Thank you in advance

Gisa

 

[Sankalp]

Hi,
Check these links, they might give an idea

http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/bdadotnetarch14.asp
http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/bdadotnetarch11.asp

Regards,
Sankalp

 

[Todd Plambeck]

Go to ingorammer.com. He's done very good books on remoting and has some
tests between WS, remoting, etc and has some benchmarks on his site. I
currently have an app using WS and Winforms and the responsiveness is good.
Depends how much data you're moving accross the Net. I built a compression
extension for my web services and it sped it up considerably on larger
datasets.

Todd