AONBench: A Methodology for Benchmarking XML Based Service Oriented Applications

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and applications increasingly rely on network infrastructure instead of back-end servers. Cisco Sytems Application Oriented Networking (A0N) initiative exemplifies this trend. Benchmarking such infrastructure and their services is expected to play an important role in the networking industry. This paper presents AONBench specifications and methodology to bench mark networked XML application servers and appliances. AONBench is not a benchmarking tool.