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Web services performance best practices


This page presents best practices for the performance of Web services applications.

Web services are developed and deployed based on standards provided by the Web Services for Java EE specification and the JAX-WS and JAXB models, and is the mechanism used to access a Web service. This article explains performance considerations for Web services supported by this specification.

When you develop or deploy a Web service, several artifacts are required, including a WSDL file. The WSDL file describes the format and syntax of the Web service input and output SOAP messages. When a Web service is implemented in the WAS runtime, the SOAP message is translated based on the Java EE request. The Java EE-based response is then translated back to a SOAP message.

The most critical performance consideration is the translation between the XML-based SOAP message and the Java object. Performance is high for a Web service implementation in WAS, however, application design, deployment and tuning can be improved. See Monitor the performance of Web services applications for more information about analyzing and tuning Web services.

For a Web service application that was developed for a WAS version prior to V6, we can achieve better performance by running the wsdeploy command. The wsdeploy command regenerates Web services artifact classes to increase the serialization and deserialization performance.

The wsdeploy command is supported by JAX-RPC applications. The JAX-WS model that is implemented by the application server does not support the wsdeploy command. If wer Web services application contains only JAX-WS endpoints, you do not need to run the wsdeploy command, as this command is used to process only JAX-RPC endpoints.

 

Basic considerations for a high-performance Web services application

The following are basic considerations you should know when designing a Web services application:

 

Additional Web services performance features that we can leverage

IBM provides considerable documentation and best practices for Web services application design and development that details these items and more.



Related concepts


SOAP with Attachments API for Java interface

 

Related tasks


Monitor the performance of Web services applications

 

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Web services specifications and APIs