ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks Transport and Resource Tuning Guidelines
Performance should be one of the criteria for using the appropriate transport. Besides performance, you should also consider interoperability, reliability, and security requirements.
Users have choices of using HTTP or JMS, SOAP over HTTP, SOAP over JMS and TIBCO Active Enterprise messages. The best practice of selecting a proper standard for the project is beyond the scope of this document. However, the following general results from a performance point of view are provided for your reference only.
You should use them only as general observations, and for initial understanding. Since each user has a different environment and different requirements, these results cannot be directly applied to their work. Instead, it is strongly recommended that you create a realistic scenario in the lab and then derive the appropriate results.