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SOA Benchmark Tool

SOA applications extensively use SOAP/XML documents to represent and transmit data. A variety of XML processing tasks such as XML parsing, Schema Validation, XSL Transformation, XPath evaluation, SOAP and WS Security are performed in a typical SOA application. All SOAP/XML processing tasks are very CPU intensive and add to the latency for executing an end-to-end business transaction. The SOA Benchmark Tool (SBT) provides an easy to learn and use framework that gives you the flexibility to configure a wide variety of XML processing methods, plug in the SOA engines you want to test, and compare the performance measurements across them.

The SOA Benchmark Tool (SBT) package includes an instruction manual and driver for the Intel SOA Expressway soft-appliance. You can also choose to write your own drivers for other vendor’s SOA solution and plug into the SBT framework. We encourage you to benchmark SOA Expressway vs. IBM DataPower* or any other vendor’s SOA solution to experience our industry leading performance numbers or yourself. Tool includes several sample workflow applications (some listed below) that can be deployed to Intel SOA Expressway with a single command.

• HelloWorld Scenario – This scenario receives a SOAP message and responds back with the same SOAP message it receives.
• WS-Security Signature Scenario – Accepts a SOAP message and applies WS-Security policy on the document.
• Content Attack Prevention Scenario – This scenario accepts a REST over HTTP message and scans it for a variety of content attack profiles for e.g. SQL injection, DTD insertion, XPATH injection etc and validates the message against XML Schema.
• WS-Security Encryption Scenario – Accepts a SOAP message and applies WS-Security policy to encrypt the entire SOAP document.
• AAA Scenario – Accepts a SOAP message with WS-Security Username Token with password and authenticates the user identity against keystore. If valid, the application generates a signed SAML assertion and response.