There's still some open questions about what form attachments should take in
SOAP, AFAIK. Sun provides one approach (as embodied by SAAJ, which Axis
layers on top of, IIRC), and Microsoft provides another. The guys who are
more deeply involved with the W3C Spec committees should probably speak to
this, since they're more familiar with the subject than I, but as near as I
can remember this is one of the things that has got some good cross-platform
legs to it: Microsoft and IBM are hashing out the details as part of their
respective involvement in W3C, and should be agreed on fairly soon.
But to answer the question you asked, Dennis, yes, at least for .NET 1.0,
DIME is the approved method of doing attachments in SOAP. .NET 1.1 is in
beta as we speak, can't speak to that, but I think the answer's still the
same.
Ted Neward
Architect, UCDavis Account & Financial Services
{.NET && Java} Author, Instructor, Speaker
http://www.javageeks.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 09:41
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Thanks, presentation, and DIME question
As far as I know Toolkit 3.0 provided the first MS support for
attachments in SOAP (both SwA and DIME). Here's one article discussing a
beta version of the toolkit, including the SwA vs. DIME issue:
http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2002_06/online/webservices_rjennings_06_17_02
/
Since VS.NET and the .NET SDK have been out since early this year, I
don't consider Toolkit 3.0 part of the basic .NET implementation.
I'm not very involved with .NET, but AFAIK the higher-level tools do not
yet include support for attachments. The only way to access this is by
going directly to the low-level calls using Toolkit 3.0. Can anyone
who's more involved with .NET confirm or correct this?
Thanks again,
- Dennis
Jian Zhang wrote:
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/downloads/sample.asp?u
r
>l=/msdn-files/027/001/948/msdncompositedoc.xml
>
>suggests that Microsoft soap toolkit 3.0 supports soap attachment.
>
>is it not part of basic .NET?
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dennis Sosnoski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 4:02 AM
>To: axis-user
>Subject: Thanks, presentation, and DIME question
>
>
>Thanks to the whole Axis team for getting out the 1.0 release! You've
>delivered a great tool for Java developers, and I'm really looking
>forward to including it in shipping products now that it's officially
>out of beta.
>
>I gave a presentation on Axis 1.0 last night to a capacity audience at
>the Seattle Java-XML SIG, ending with using Axis to build and run a
>client for a publicly-available web service chosen by the audience at
>the time of the demo. Axis made me look really good, building Java
>client code from WSDL and connecting flawlessly to a .NET service on the
>first try. Slides and some details are posted online at
>http://www.sosnoski.com/presents/java-xml/jxmlaxis.html for anyone who's
>interested.
>
>When I captured the request going in to the server I noticed that Axis
>lists "application/dime" as one of the accept types. I don't remember
>seeing any references to this in the documentation, but in looking at
>the JavaDocs I see that some DIME classes are included in the
>org.apache.axis.attachments package. Does this mean that Axis includes
>DIME support?
>
> - Dennis
>
>
>
