WCF: Windows Communication Foundation vs. .NET 2.0 Distributed Applications

Overview

Microsoft has released an article comparing the performance of WCF and .NET 2.0 distributed application technologies such as ASMX web services, WSE web services, COM+ applications and .NET 2.0 remoting.  The results are surprising.

Detail

You can find the article here:

• A Performance Comparison of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) with Existing Distributed Communication Technologies (Saurabh Gupta, MSDN, February 2007)

Comment

The main findings from my perspective are as follows:

• There really isn't a good case to use ASMX or WSE in preference to WCF in new projects where legacy code isn't involved
• WCF performance beats both .NET 2.0 remoting and .NET COM+ applications in realistic scenarios

Versions

• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0

Metadata

• Categories: .NET, SOA, Software Development, Performance
• Additional keywords: enterprise applications, software architecture, web services enhancements
• Technorati Tags: .NET, software development, WCF, Windows Communication Foundation, SOA, Service Oriented Architecture, architecture, web services enhancements, WSE, performance