>the problem that I'm experiencing is related to some (known?) Axis problem to >handle large xml documents.
Understood. Does anyone have a simple benchmark that shows how much memory Axis consumes as a function of the size of the SOAP messages? >In fact, I'm sending back and forth binary files or large xml files >(2.5Mb) without using the SAAJ specification or the code used in the >/sample/attachemnt folder of Axis1.1 distrib. I suspect you'll find many SOAP environments have a hard time with this. If you're sending giant data, attachments are likely to be more efficient. But attachments have interop troubles, and they're not objects. I'd like to be able to send arrays of 100,000 complex objects and have them available to my server demarshalled. Barring that, I'd like to know what the practical limits are.