The following article might be of some help:
Rick Kellogg
-------------- Original message --------------
From: Florian Rengers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hi all,
>
> I have to write a SOAP Service with Java that deliver different
> documents like Word, pdf and image files.
>
> As a Service Consumer I have to write a dotNET Client which invoke the
> service with the identifier of the desired document.
>
>
> I have three main questions:
>
> 1.)
> There are many types of attachment handlings and encodings like MTOM,
> sWA, DIME and MIME.
> Which of these are really both supported from .NET and from a Java.
> A read that I should use mime for an interoperable service, but I also
> read that dotNET does not support MIME encoding.
>
> 2.)
> Which Java Technology should I use for this, Apache Axis or JAX-WS?
>
> 3.)
> Do I have to define the attachment type in the wsdl-file. I saw some
> examples in which that was done.
> This is a problem for me because as I described the attachment type will
> differ for each response.
>
>
> Hope that someone can help me out of my uncertainty.
>
> greetings
>
> Florian
>
