Hi, I have set up a simple webservice for testing, where the object to transfer contains a bunch of simple fields, and then a DataHandler for some binary data (a Blob, actually). It works just fine, and some test with large files (500MB) proved to me that it really works without having the entire data in memory on the server or on the client.
But then I realised that in most use cases, we will not need this binary data, so on the client side we will not read from the InputStream of the DataHandler. But can that cause any problem? Because when I think about it I don't really know how CXF handles this DataHandler. Maybe it assumes that the entire content of the DataHandler InputStream will be sent, and that it keeps the connection open until the client has finished reading, or until some timeout. Or maybe it assumes the opposite, that it can close the connection after it has transfered the "normal" data, and then open a new connection if the client starts to read from the InputStream of the DataHandler. If it is something like the first scenario, that what can I do to transfer this object the right way, without having to read the InputStream? I can't find any information about this in the documentation. Regards /Jimi
