Using SPDY as an underlying transport for SOA related implementations

Question

The goal of SPDY is to reduce the latency of web pages and make the web faster. It has been proven a significant reduction in page loading.

So if we use SPDY as an underlying transport for SOA related implementations (ex: SOAP message transmission, REST over SPDY), would it be beneficial?

Answer 1

Yes it would.

SPDY is a more efficient protocol than HTTP. The main benefits that you will get for SOAP/REST communication are the fact that SPDY can do HTTP header compression, reducing bandwidth, and multiplexing - that is being able to send multiple requests on the same physical connection.

For a SOAP/REST use case you will not benefit of the big performance boost that SPDY Push gives (see demo video), but it will be worth nonetheless.

Jetty is a Java Server that supports SPDY.