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Unfortunately, lead behaviors inconsistent with best practices for building and deploying Web service-based systems that will stand the test of time. These behaviors include continuing to operate with a proprietary non-XML architecture, and designing the architecture around network devices that do hardware XML processing.

This article examines the myths that surround XML performance issues to help IT professionals avoid the pitfalls associated with the behaviors described above.

A Closer Look at XML Bandwidth

Local area networks have lots of bandwidth at a very low cost--but wide area networks are another matter. While they've been improving by leaps and bounds, it can still be prohibitively expensive to expand the capacity of a WAN link and, as such, WANs can be bandwidth...

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