Looks like that has been implemented in 1.6.2: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5107
2012/4/26 Philippe A. <futhar...@gmail.com> > Say I have an operation receiving a long list of individual records via > MTOM (cached). The entire file takes 30 seconds to be transferred. Does > Axis force me to wait until the entire file is received before I can start > processing records? > > -- > Philippe > >