Performance Comparison of Enterprise Applications on Mobile Operating Systems

Abstract

IntroductionThe method of interaction between a user and the internet is comprised of more than HTML and JavaScript web pages. There are many background web services in use which provide a new level of interactivity between the user and a web site. These web services allow a business to operate highly functional applications, between different platforms, without the need for a server for each independent platform. There are many different types of web services, using any number of programming languages to perform their functions, which are accessible over the internet. Mobile operating systems have increased in complexity in recent years, growing smarter and faster. Now, mobile devices are closing the gap on PCs in terms of processing power, processing speed, RAM. They possess the ability to connect to the internet, and the operating systems are able to run apps. One such method of calling services remotely is through web services. This paper focuses on consuming web services on mobile operating systems and evaluating and the viability of doing so. It compares the two main web service protocols, SOAP and REST. These comparisons were performed on two operating systems; Android and Windows Phone. These operating systems are popular mobile operating systems for smartphones. Windows Phone was released in September 2010 [1] and Android version 2.3 was released in December 2010 [2]. Testing both REST and SOAP on these limited operating systems can show how the operating systems can be improved in calling web services, and how well they can progress in the future, in terms of memory usage, time taken to complete the web service call and the amount of data sent between the phone and the server. The software artefact for the paper included creating a number of web services in which the mobile operating

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