Comparison of frameworks for creating web services using the Axis2/C and gSOAP examples

Abstract

Main purpose of this paper was to compare two frameworks (Axis2/C and gSOAP) that implement the SOAP protocol, a protocol for the exchange of structured messages in a computer environment. The paper describes experiments showing the level of SOAP performance depending on the components of each framework and the methods of their implementation, such as: parsing, serialisation, working with various message formats, the effectiveness of protocol, the efficiency of message processing models, etc. After the practical part was completed, performance studies of each of the frameworks were carried out, the collected data helped to define a more efficient and faster tool for transferring data between the server and the client.