I'm new to this company and I've been placed on a project with a java developer who wants to send me (a windows VB.net developer) a file from unix (java) to windows but he doesn't want to use FTP. He asked me to write a web service. So I did but he didn't like that he has to call it via a soap format. He now says what he wants is something that will receive a streaming http request (sending me an xml file) that I would receive the stream and save the bytes into a file as they are sent (so that I will never had the entire file in memory).
1 solution that I can think of to do this is to open a data socket and listen to a port and then send back messages. I've used sockets in my program to FTP files via the FTP protocol but not sure how much this is different. Another solution that I can think of is to create a web service with a start, a write (excepting 512 bytes at a time), an End to receive the file and a start, read, end to send the file back to him. This isn't that hard but he hates the idea. He doesn't like that he has to write soap formatted calls (to call my web service from java). Is there another way that I can write an http streaming request listener? In a tight spot...please help, Franklin =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
