Performance Evaluation of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0

Middleware eases the development of distributed applications. Expansion in the enterprise world entails integration of heterogeneous products and there is a demand for a balance between performance interoperability and security in the distributed applications. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) offers a technology to build service-oriented secure reliable and interoperable distributed applications. The current literature contains few studies comparing the performance of WCF with other technologies but it does not address the performance of WCF in a cross-technology communication. This book experimentally evaluates the performance of WCF in unsecure and secure variants. It evaluates the performance in on-machine and cross-machine communication and it addresses the performance of WCF''s interoperability with ASMX and Java clients. The experiments are conducted using client and service applications in a laboratory setting. We have measured the performance in terms of throughput response time processor and memory utilization during the experiments.The book should help the research/industry practitioners to understand the efficient technology and promote the research flow.