XML not the only game in town
By Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 2/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
XML (short for eXtensible markup language) is the most common tool for creating Web services, but it's not the only one. In fact, in some cases, XML—which transmits information as electronic documents—isn't even the best choice for creating Web services.
"When you're dealing with massive amounts of data, sending XML documents is very inefficient," says Rick Bulotta, CTO of plant information management software vendor Lighthammer. XML documents are large files that consume more network and computing resources than simple binary code. In the biotech industry, for instance, where processes are created to transmit results from tens of thousands of data points several times a day, binary code is much more efficient than XML.
Currently there are no standards for incorporating binary code into Web services. That means binary-coded Web services aren't as easy to reuse as those created with XML, but standards groups are working on that problem.
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