An Evaluation of a Service-Oriented Platform for Indexing Media Collections

Nowadays, many industries own large media archives that need to be efficiently indexed, a process that very often implies the integration of legacy applications with newly developed software. In such scenarios, an SOA development approach allows addressing the correspondent needs for integration, data sharing and interoperability. However, the key technologies on top of which a typical SOA-based deployment is built today still face some challenges in terms of performance and scalability when compared to the communication performance of other distributed applications. With the goal of evaluating the real performance of XML Web services and ESB, this paper presents a SOA-based approach for enabling a distributed media indexing platform, and compares it to other approaches in terms of performance and overhead. Additionally, it provides a set of guidelines for the construction of a performing and scalable SOA.