Sending response as stream

[Praveen Peddi]

HI all, We are using apache soap both on serverside and on client side. I am trying to write a method in soap service that returns thousands of objects that are converted into xml elements. Returning the whole response as an xml string is taking for ever. I am wondering if I can send the response as an output stream rather than as xml string.   How about sending the response as attachment. Will it do any better. I think attachments are sent as streams if I am not wrong.   Thanks Praveen