SOAP attachment Question

[Gabsaga Tata]

Is it possible for a client application to get back data as MIME attachment from a web service? From the example code snippets below, the service successfully attaches a file to a SOAP message but when the client application tries to get the attachments count, it is zero. Any ideas why?   Thanks.   Gabsaga   ******************************************************** Code snippet for MyMessageService message-style service. ******************************************************** MessageContext msgCntxt = MessageContext.getCurrentContext(); SOAPMessage msg = msgCntxt.getMessage(); DataHandler dataHander = new DataHandler(new FileDataSource("C:\\<tomcat_directory>\\webapps\\axis\\WEB-INF\\attachments\\res_message.xml")); AttachmentPart attachment = msg.createAttachmentPart(dataHander); attachment.setContentId("attached_processed_file"); msg.addAttachmentPart(attachment); ******************************************************** Code snippet for Client application sending request to MyMessageService message-style service. ******************************************************** SOAPConnection conn = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance().createConnection(); SOAPMessage response = conn.call(message, "http://localhost/axis/services/MyMessageService");                        SOAPPart responseSp = response.getSOAPPart(); SOAPEnvelope responseSe = responseSp.getEnvelope(); SOAPBody responseBody = responseSe.getBody();      //Get attached message if(!responseBody.hasFault()) {     int numOfAttachments = response.countAttachments();     System.out.println("\n\nNumber of attachments in message = " + numOfAttachments); } ********************************************************