We are analyzing current application functionality and identifying which functionality could be exposed as web services. Some of the data that would need to be embedded into the soap body part (or added as an attachment) could be quite large.
How large of a SOAP message can you send before it doesn't make sense to send the data in a SOAP message? In other words, what is the upper size limit for a SOAP message? What sizes do you start seeing performance problems? If we have messages that exceed this threshold, what are good work arounds? Breaking the messages up into blocks and sending multiple blocks? Yuck. ftp'ing compressed files? Yuck. Yes we will have to encrypt, probably using XML enryption. We will be using WLS 8.1+, J2EE, Solaris, Oracle. Thanks.
