> Does Axis, or Axiom, handle the Base64 encoding/decoding of the binary > data to/from a DataHandler? Yes... Only if needed...
> If so, is there a way to disable such handling? Nope... But if you use the API properly you can avoid any unncessary encoding/decodings. > Characteristics for my service have a client submitting large files and > then some number of clients retrieving them. The service itself treats > these files as opaque blobs. It could receive, and return, them to Axis > in a Base64 encoded form saving a lot of time when clients retrieved a > document be avoiding a re-encode. Above is not clear to me. Is your service written in Axis2. Do you want to send/receive binary in base64 form.. If so it won't tolerate large files.. thanks, Thilina > > Chad La Joie wrote: > > I'm working on a project that may (read: almost certainly will) require > > very large binary blobs (many GBs) to be transported. The specification > > I'm working with requires at least SOAP over HTTP support and allows for > > the use of MTOM. > > > > My question is, does Axis 2 (client and service side) support true > > end-to-end streaming. By this I mean can a service stream data from > > disk, over HTTP to the client and provide a stream on the client side > > which can be dumped direct to disk? > > > > I had read the MTOM guide [1] and while I see data handlers and sources > > being used it doesn't say whether Axis 2 is architected in such a way > > that the data is never buffered in memory. > > > > Thanks for the help. > > > > > > [1] http://ws.apache.org/axis2/1_0/mtom-guide.html > > -- > Chad La Joie 2052-C Harris Bldg > OIS-Middleware 202.687.0124 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Thilina Gunarathne - http://www.wso2.com - http://thilinag.blogspot.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
