I recommend Jersey REST API for this kind of thing.
I do multipart submissions all the time with it... although I never
use SOAP (only JSON between mobile app and server).

- Brill Pappin


On Dec 20, 12:52 pm, Kevin Tambascio <kevin.tambas...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm playing around with writing a web service that runs on Android
> that handles uploading photos.  I am only writing the server, and do
> not have any control over the client.
>
> Inside of the message is a small SOAP message, and then the binary
> data.  I am trying to figure out if there's a library that can do the
> parsing of the two pieces.  Apache Commons FileUpload looked like the
> obvious choice, however, it seems to be heavily intertwined with
> servlet libraries, and I don't know if it's possible (or if it's a
> good idea) to put too much J2EE infrastructure on a phone.
>
> Parsing it myself doesn't seem too bad.  I'm not too familiar with the
> raw HTTP layers/protocol, but it looks like the the boundary delimiter
> string is given in the content type header.  If I find and index past
> those, I should be able to find the two halves of the multi-part
> message that I need to deal with.  At least that's what I seem to
> think after looking at a wireshark trace of the client talking to the
> real server.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> -Kevin

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