 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
.NET Forum / Languages / C# / January 2008.NET Remoting over HTTP
All, I currently have a windows application set up in a remote office that accesses data via web services. This is a generic web servies set up where the WebMethods exposed in an asmx file gather the data requested and return a dataset. I've been looking at Remoting and am wondering if there would be any performance advantage to hosting remotable objects in IIS. The benefits are obvious using Remoting over a LAN or WAN but is there any performance gained by exposing remotable objects through IIS' web services? Would that actually create more overhead? Thanks for any input. Looch, I don't think you will get any performance benefits. While I ^think^ that you might be able to use a binary encoding over an HTTP transport (I'm not sure, you ^might^), the real benefits of hosting a remoting server in IIS is to gain the benefits of IIS, namely authentication, app recycling, etc, etc, not for performance.  Signature- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com > All, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks for any input. Yeah, one of the main reasons to pick IIS with Remoting ... is that you inherit all the IIS features without having to code them. Aka, if the power shuts off or a reboot happens. IIS comes up. Your alternative with Remoting..would be to write your own Windows Service. That would have to startup on reboot. And security, you can piggyback off of SSL with IIS, instead of handling it yourself. .. I think IIS is actually slightly slower. And you would pay the performance penalty IN ORDER TO GET the piggyback features listed above. > Looch, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >> >> Thanks for any input. If possible though consider WCF services hosted within Windows Server 2008 / Windows Vista with the Windows Activation Service. This will provide significant benefits over and above using IIS 6.0 for hosting services. > Looch, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > > > Thanks for any input. Thanks for the replies, I've been looking at WCF...interesting. WCF is definitely a better option here, as it gives you fine-grained control over pretty much every part of the process (from encoding, to transport, to security, to interception, etc, etc). There is a lot of power there, much more than remoting ever had, IMO. Signature- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] - mvp@spam.guard.caspershouse.com > Thanks for the replies, I've been looking at WCF...interesting. The other key part is "DataSet". DataSet's don't serializer uber-well to begin with. ... You should look at WCF. http://sholliday.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A68482B9628A842A!158.entry (among other sites) I would not code up a new project on Remoting these days. WCF is a better alternative. I also recommend Juval Lowy's book on WCF Services as well. O'reilly. "Programming WCF Services". > All, > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks for any input. > All, > > I currently have a windows application set up in a remote office that > accesses data via web services. This is a generic web servies set up > where the WebMethods exposed in an asmx file gather the data requested > and return a dataset. You can serialize the dataset to XML, use binary formatters, deserialize it on the other side. > I've been looking at Remoting and am wondering if there would be any > performance advantage to hosting remotable objects in IIS. If you want speed over the line, then binary over HTTP is faster that text or SOAP. > The benefits are obvious using Remoting over a LAN or WAN but is there > any performance gained by exposing remotable objects through IIS' web > services? Would that actually create more overhead? No, I don't think so. > Thanks for any input. You can see it all in action if you want. The binary over HTTP The Web server with a Web service portal, and the Web server being used as an implicit application server. The .Net Remoting http://www.lhotka.net/Default.aspx Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
|
Reply to this Message
|
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.