Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for leveraging bandwidth and processor utilization to advantageously influence response time performance. The objective of such leveraging is to maximize transaction throughput (e.g., requests per second) between a pair of servers when the servers are connected through less than optimal networks and/or network connections. Such an optimization is accomplished by determining whether or not adjusting request and/or reply sizes by applying a compression factor (i.e., to facilitate compression) will have a desirable influence on response time performance. Such determination is based on decision criteria including, but are not limited to, network protocol performance, CPU utilization, bandwidth utilization, and estimates of the CPU time and network time costs of sending compressed verses uncompressed data.

Abstract: A method, computer program product, and a data processing system for transforming markup language documents is provided. A first markup language document in a first format to be transformed into a second document of a second format is obtained. A reference to a source of a data fragment to be inserted into the second document is identified. A data fragment cache is interrogated. A determination of whether the data fragment is located in the data fragment cache is made. The first markup language document is transformed into the second document. The second document includes the data fragment.