[jbossws-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBWS-925) Add support for FastInfoset

[Justin Bertram (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-925?page=comments#action_12383338 ] 
            
Justin Bertram commented on JBWS-925:
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The referenced document (http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/xml/fastinfoset/) is over four years old.  Since the time it was published several of your open source competitors have integrated Fast Infoset into their stacks.  This includes Apache's Axis2 (http://wso2.org/library/2686) which is used by Geronimo (http://geronimo.apache.org/) and Jonas (http://jonas.objectweb.org/).  It also includes Sun's reference implementation of JAX-WS (https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/) which is the basis of the Metro Web Service Stack (https://metro.dev.java.net/) used by Glassfish (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/).  I don't know anything about commercial vendors, but I assume coverage is good there as well.

The reason I bring this up is because I am endeavoring to write the highest performing web service possible with open source software.  Right now, we have standardized on JBoss, but the benefits of Fast Infoset look large enough that they might justify changing application servers.

Is there any possibility Fast Infoset could be integrated into the 2.0.x codebase rather than the 2.1.x codebase?

> Add support for FastInfoset
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>
>                 Key: JBWS-925
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBWS-925
>             Project: JBoss Web Services
>          Issue Type: Feature Request
>      Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) 
>          Components: jbossws-jaxws
>            Reporter: Thomas Diesler
>             Fix For: jbossws-2.1.1
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> A standard way of doing binary WS is FastInfoset
> http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/xml/fastinfoset/
> The Fast Infoset standard draft (currently being developed as joint work by ISO/IEC JTC 1 and ITU-T) specifies a binary format for XML infosets that is an efficient alternative to XML. An instance of this binary format is called a fast infoset document. Fast infoset documents are analogous to XML documents. Each has a physical form and an XML infoset. Fast infoset documents are, given the results presented, faster to serialize and parse, and smaller in size, than the equivalent XML documents. Thus, fast infoset documents may be used whenever the size and processing time of XML documents is an issue.

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