> 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
>
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