SOAP vs Flash Remoting - Flash Player 7
An interesting article I came across some time ago I just came across again now. Visit http://www.flashorb.com/articles/soap_vs_flash_remoting_benchmark.shtml to have a look at some benchmarks between using Web Service API vs Flash Remoting. Very significant speed differences were evident.
Their conclusion to the article as as follows:
“Macromedia has done an outstanding job making its SOAP integration as simple as possible. Our experience using the WebServices APIs was very positive. However, there are several drawbacks in the current Flash Player SOAP implementation. The most noticeable drawback is the memory leak, which makes the approach to be impractical. The Flash Remoting approach is by far more stable and has better performance. The SOAP approach results in larger payloads and greater CPU processing resulting from the XML Schema validation and XML parsing. The Flash Remoting approach benefits from a binary representation of request/response as well as the invocation-batching feature. For any application that requires moderate to high remote invocation volume and/or involving complex data types and large arrays, Flash Remoting is a better fit.”
It makes an interesting read and the results are very well presented.
