Frank Lynch is a principal services engineer with Iona Technologies. He holds B.Sc. in applied computing from Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Frank has 10 years of experience in the software industry, primarily working with distributed systems technologies. He has worked in a wide range of roles including product development, professional services/consulting, sales, and support. He has advised some of the world's largest financial services and telecommunications firms, and spends considerable time with Global 2000 companies as a distributed systems technologist.
Web services allow for the delivery of SOAP messages over any protocol. A
common misconception is that all SOAP messages must be transmitted over HTTP.
While that approach is useful in many cases, there are situations where it
makes sense to use alternatives. This paper investigates situations where
HTTP does not scale sufficiently for enterprise Web service deployments and
looks at available alternatives.
HTTP and Scalability
HTTP was designed for serving Web pages under the assumption that the
protocol would only be required to send a request and receive a response.
This paradigm has worked very well for the World Wide Web and has been
ubiquitously accepted as its standard protocol. When a person makes a request
on an interactive Web site, they are typically interactin... (more)
Frank Lynch is a principal services engineer with Iona Technologies. He holds B.Sc. in applied computing from Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland. Frank has 10 years of experience in the software industry, primarily working with distributed systems technologies. He has worked in a wide range of roles including product development, professional services/consulting, sales, and support. He has advised some of the world's largest financial services and telecommunications firms, and spends considerable time with Global 2000 companies as a distributed systems technologist.
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