Axis/C vs gSOAP
 

Hi, am trying to find which lib is the best to use for web services in C++. Interested in feature sets such as WS-* support and WSDL export / import, and speed. Looking at the speed side of things I'm seeing conflicting results.

gSOAP fater than Axis/C
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html
http://www.extreme.indiana.edu/xgws/..._sc/index.html

WSO2 (Axis/C port) faster than gSOAP
http://wso2.org/library/articles/hig...web-services-c

Any idea why the WSO2 case is faster than gSOAP by such a large margin? Not quite sure what they meant by CGI mode.

Each such comparison will be made on the basis of certain "key assumptions" (unless they are merely being made by the winning-company's marketing department :rolleyes: ). Your question will therefore be ... do these assumptions apply to your case, and are the "benefits" stated really applicable to you?

Especially when you are building a new ("green field") web service, perhaps you should be equally or more concerned with "future-proofing" your design. If someone wants to build an appliance of some kind that will interact with your service, five years from now (and a full three years after "that most-unfortunate bread truck incident" which most-unfortunately involved you ...), will your successors (and heirs) be happy with your choice? Why or why not?