[SoapRMI] does xsoap support attachments?

[Aleksander Slominski]

Mark Swanson wrote:

>I'm having quite a bit of trouble interoperating with another SOAP 
>implementation. (Not soaprmi's fault). The other implementation baloons 28MB 
>Strings or byte[] (tried both) into over 400MB.
>
>So, I know the other implementation supports SOAP attachments and does not 
>suffer from the memory problems when attachments are used. Does soaprmi 
>support SOAP attachments? 
>
hi Mark,

uinfortunately not.

>Are SOAP attachments a standard? 
>
not.

>I see a w3 standards document on SOAP 
>attachments but the attachments do not seem to be in the SOAP 1.1 
>documentation..
>
SOAP does not require support for attachments. there are two separate 
proposals SwA (SOAP with attachments) and DIME (proposed by Microsoft)

did you consider to transport large documents using HTTP - it would 
allow you to do retrying and that may be very useful when sending large 
data.

thanks,

alek