I have been monitoring the performance issue for some time. Our figures 
suggest XT still leads forJava with MSXML the overall leader. Obviously there 
are no independent figures available for Datapower. I will post a link when 
you can see some published results.

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To comment on Bryan's question earlier in the thread,

> Okay well I feel rather like a caveman presented with a starship, please
> explain it's usefulness - without resorting to words or phrases like
> "business logic", "drive revenues" etc. words like queuing, throughput
> etc. would be good if combined with some numerical values; I've read the
> datasheet can you clarify the point here

I work with a company called Sarvega (www.sarvega.com) who make an appliance 
that overlaps somewhat in functionality with the Datapower offering. The main 
applications I see for such products in no particular order are,

XSLT offload processing - Moving server-side transforms off the application 
server to optimized hardware/software.
	
Security processing - Similar to XSLT offload, move processing of SSL, XMLSig 
etc to optimized hardware/software.

Content routing - High speed classification and routing of XML content between 
servers.

Universal translation - XSLT Transforms to either XML for further processing 
or other output formats such as email or speech applications.

There is of course a great emphasis on reliable processing models, network 
monitoring and such that you would expect from an appliance. The terms XML 
firewall/router are sometimes used to describe these boxes but I am not sure 
that really covers it all, but it might be handy as a one-liner.

</shameless_plug>

Kev
kjones@xxxxxxxxxxx


On Tuesday 24 Sep 2002 2:13 pm, James Fuller wrote:
> > >Who is the fastest, Mike? Caucho's Resin? libxml/xsl? It is not Saxon.
> >
> > Who >do
> >
> > >you think they should use?
>
> does anyone know if there is more recent or relevent work to the XSLTMark
> work
> http://www.datapower.com/xml_community/xsltmark.html
>
> cheers, jim fuller
>
>
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