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