Hi everybody!
I'm using a webservice to gather lots of data from a database and then convert the data to an excel sheet using Jakarta POI. This part of my webservice is working well. What I would like to do now, is to send the resulting file back to a client. Before I posted this message, I already looked at the wiki entry on attachments, looked at the source that came with axis, read "Fear of attachments" and I also googled. Yet there are still several points that remain unresolved:
1) What is "the preferred" method to send binary data to a client? From what I've read so far it seems to me that the answer is "it depends", which doesn't really help all that much. The size of the files I need to transfer is between 2 and about 10 MB.
2) Is it correct, that when I'm using attachments (DataHandler), c# clients won't be able to use my service?
3) I'd like to send the files I generated to a client, but at which point in my code can I actually add the attachment to the response, that's send to the client.
I'd be grateful for any replies or (if these questions have already been answered) pointers on where I can find more informaton/samples.
Thanks a lot,
Tom
