Boost Web Service Performance in JAX-WS with Fast Infoset

ML message transmission and processing are at the foundation of the web service programming model. To effectively improve web service performance, you need to reduce the overhead associated with parsing, serializing, and transmitting XML-based data. Fast Infoset is an open, standards-based solution for doing just that. It specifies several techniques for minimizing the size of XML encodings and maximizing the speed of creating and processing those encodings. Using these techniques, you can tune Fast Infoset encoding according to your specific domain requirements, whether that means favoring compression over processing performance or requiring efficient compression but not at the expense of processing performance.

In general, Fast Infoset documents are smaller and therefore faster to process than corresponding XML representations. As such, they can be very useful when the size and processing time of XML documents are a concern. For an example, the W3C's XML Binary Characterization Working Group has identified two such use cases:

1. Web services for small devices that have bandwidth constraints
2. Web services within an enterprise that has high throughput requirements