How Fast is Your Network Today?

Pacific Grove, CA (PRWEB) August 11, 2004

SimonTuffs.com announced today Version 0.95 of Soap-Stone. Soap-Stone is a benchmarking tool that simplifies evaluation of data-throughput for Java virtual machines, hardware, networks, and protocol stacks. In its default distribution it has protocol plugins for raw TCP/IP sockets, RMI, HTTP, and SOAP. Soap-Stone can be used to provision a network system, i.e. determine what capacities will be required in hardware and network speeds in order to achieve a given data bandwidth for a specified packet size.

A white-paper available at http://soap-stone.sourceforge.net shows how to use Soap-Stone on your system, and also presents some startling results regarding the inefficiencies of SOAP as a communication protocol relative to other protocols such as HTTP and RMI.

Soap-Stone is released under a liberal BSD-style Open Source license on SourceForge.net at: http://one-jar.sourceforge.net. Version 1.0 of One-JAR is anticipated for Q4 2004. Soap-Stone is 100% Pure Java, and delivered as a One-JAR executable JAR file.

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