Soap and Attachment- Huge data

[joshy joseph <jo...@hotmail.com>]

I am interested to know about AXIS development teams comment on the Soap and 
big attcahments. Is there any efforts to this feild. Currently I find there 
is a lot of articles stating that webservices will lack in functionality 
until it is able to support the streaming of huge data files with limited 
impact to the server(avoiding as much copy by value). What is AXIS 
development team's view on this issue. I find that enabling the soap 
attchments is one of the high priority work for AXIS team.

Joshy Joseph

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Re: Soap and Attachment- Huge data

[Raymond Feng <zh...@xecent.com>]

The problem of big attachments with SOAP also bothers us. We used Apache
SOAP 2.2 to handle attachments in SOAP messages (Apache SOAP 2.2
serializes/deserializes attachments using DataHandler Serializer). It works
fine when the size of attachments is small but the performance degrades a
lot as the size increases because the Serializer encodes the whole
attachments into memory. Streaming big chunck of data on demand is really a
critical requirement.

Raymond Feng
Xecent Software, Inc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshy joseph" <jo...@hotmail.com>
To: <ax...@xml.apache.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:03 PM
Subject: Soap and Attachment- Huge data


>
> I am interested to know about AXIS development teams comment on the Soap
and
> big attcahments. Is there any efforts to this feild. Currently I find
there
> is a lot of articles stating that webservices will lack in functionality
> until it is able to support the streaming of huge data files with limited
> impact to the server(avoiding as much copy by value). What is AXIS
> development team's view on this issue. I find that enabling the soap
> attchments is one of the high priority work for AXIS team.
>
> Joshy Joseph
>
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
>