This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/!
p. First of all, both client implementations can be run using JRuby. Since Savon is a pure Ruby implementation you get JRuby support for free. The drawback is, that it’s slow on MRI.
Using native C Libraries by default, Handsoap is bleezing fast. But when it comes to terms of compatibility with JRuby you’ve got to fall back to slow core Ruby classes:
Handsoap.http_driver = :net_http
Handsoap.xml_query_driver = :rexml
p. Using this configuration nearly elimininates the differences in performance:
$ rake benchmark_jruby
user system total real
savon jruby dynamic 15.060000 0.000000 15.060000 ( 15.060000)
savon jruby static 10.984000 0.000000 10.984000 ( 10.984000)
handsoap jruby 8.717000 0.000000 8.717000 ( 8.717000)
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