An Effective Approach to Parse SOAP Messages on Mobile Clients

This work presents an approach to address the bottleneck in SOAP processing on mobile devices during Web Service invocations. It takes the form of a unique SOAP response message parsing strategy which is implemented on the mobile device client. It consists of deriving the structure of a SOAP response message at the time the request is constructed. The derived structure is used as input in our special parser, named Structure Identification Parser SIP, to extract the returned values. Our experiments show that our approach reduces SOAP response parsing time by around 85%, contributing to reduce the response time by nearly 48% when compared to the Apache Axis framework.

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