Master Thesis Software Engineering Thesis no: MSE-2010:09 April 2010 Performance Evaluation of Windows Communication Foundation’s Interoperability Muhammad Hamayun Nadeem Ahmed School of Computing Blekinge Institute of Technology Box 520 SE – 372 25 Ronneby Sweden This thesis is submitted to the School of Computing at Blekinge Institute of Technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering. The thesis is equivalent to 2x20 weeks of full time studies. Contact Information: Author(s): Muhammad Hamayun Address: Älgbacken 8, Läg 185, 372 34 Ronneby, Sweden E-mail:
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[email protected] University advisor(s): Professor Dr. Håkan Grahn School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Examiner: Dr. Tony Gorschek School of Computing, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden School of Computing Internet : www.bth.se Blekinge Institute of Technology Phone : +46 457 38 50 00 Box 520 Fax : +46 457 271 25 SE – 372 25 Ronneby Sweden ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We are very grateful to our supervisor Dr. Håkan Grahn for his invaluable time, motivation, feedback, and support throughout in our thesis work. We are also very thankful to Charlie Svahnberg to allow us in Testlab for the experiments. We are very thankful to our families for their love, care, motivation and support, right from the beginning until the end of our thesis work. At last but not the least, we are thankful to our friends and colleagues for their fruitful encouragement and motivation. ABSTRACT Middleware eases the development of distributed applications.