Some Aspects of Reliability Evaluation of Multi Service Multi-Functional SOAP Based Web Services

Reliability evaluation of multi service multi-functional SOAP based web services for high load of users is important from the perspective of operational quality of the service, users and developers. In this article, the authors have emphasized on developing a novel methodology for evaluating the reliability of web service for high load. A prototype research medical web service is considered to predict the reliability of the service by using this methodology. The authors called the service as PMedWS (Prototype Medical Web Service). They performed stress and load testing on the web service using Mercury Load Runner to study the reliability aspects against massive users. The experimental results and the statistical analysis demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of our methodology.

Performance Evaluation of Hierarchical SOAP Based Web Service in Load Balancing Cluster-Based and Non-Cluster-Based Web Server

Evaluating the implementation techniques of web service and analysing their performance in load balancing cluster-based and non-cluster-based web server is necessary from the perspective of web service developer, researchers as well as users. As such the authors propose to develop and implement a SOAP based hierarchical web service using load balancing cluster-based and non-cluster based Apache Tomcat web server to study the web service performance metrics. The performance of overall system is tested using the load testing tool Mercury Load runner and a comparative investigation is carried out using the stability, load and performance metrics of both services. In this paper, the authors present, in detail, the methodology of experiment, comparative testing results, and statistical analysis on performance metrics.