Re: Passing XML Best Practice

[Anne Thomas Manes]

Then I suggest using the Messaging API (Axis1) or the RawXMLMessageProvider (Axis2) and don't attempt to bind the schema to Java objects. But it's still better to send the XML within the SOAP envelope.

On 5/22/06, Hoda Nadeem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 

Good suggestion, but unfortunately, the schema, and the schemas it depends on make it impractical to include in the WSDL.

 

It took XMLBeans 15+ mins and modification (to the schema) to generate the data binding jars. So, for the sake of sanity, and handling the XML cleanly, we decided it is better to pass the XML in raw form.

 

But we are not sure what the best practice is in this specific case. Is attachments better, or one string.

 

Thanks.

 

Nadeem

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From: Anne Thomas Manes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 4:45 PM
To: axis-user@ws.apache.org
Subject: Re: Passing XML Best Practice

Why don't you import the schema into the WSDL?
It's always better to pass the XML within the SOAP envelope than to send it as a string or as an attachment.

Anne

On 5/22/06, Hoda Nadeem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 

When dealing with raw xml data that needs to be passed through web services (the XML schemas are complicated and big enough that we are not including the types in the WSDL explicitly), is it better to:

 

a. Pass the XML in a doc-literal web service through a string

 

or

 

b. Use SOAP with attachments to pass the XML through.

 

Thanks.

 

Nadeem