Re: BLOBS in SOAP. Feasible???. One more doubt...

[Victor Chinnappan <cv...@yahoo.com>]

Wouter,
Thanks for the pointer. I shall definitely take a look
at that. Since you have done significant amount of
work on that alreay, i thought i migh ask one more
question....

Using the java.net.* classes when i try to
upload/download a file it does not send the buffers
immediately and waits to buffer the whole file. If i
want to send a 30 MB file (Not an unrealistic case,
though), it will be cached, (Paging et al...) and then
sent over the wire. And if something breaks halfway,
then the whole thing is gone. Is there anything in
SOAP/Attachment protocol, that will address this
issue. Maybe i have not explored the java.net.*
thoroughly.... I am trying to think of a smart
upload/download functionality... I hope you understand
what i am tyring to say. 

Interestingly, there is one other free library that we
came across....
http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/ that does
this job.. Why should not this/similar functionality
be part of that standard???? (Asking for much!!!!).
anyway, sorry to bother you... In case you find this
chartered waters already.... i would appreciate your
responses..

Thanks once again,
Victor.C
--- Wouter Cloetens <wc...@raleigh.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:22:06 -0700 (PDT), Victor
> Chinnappan wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone tried transferring large binary stuff
> >across the wire using SOAP. Assuming i have a java
> >class that can encapsulate this binary data (say a
> zip
> >file) would it be a good idea to use SOAP for this
> >kind of transfer....
> 
> Victor,
> 
> Yes, I do it all the time through attachments. See
> the page in the URL in my signature line. 
> It needs to be brushed up - a specification for
> adding attachments to SOAP has been 
> proposed since I implemented that version, and I'm
> very close to complying with that. I 
> just haven't had the time to package the patches.
> 
> bfn, Wouter
> --
> http://www.workspot.net/~zombie/soap/
> My opinions are irrelevant. They will be assimilated
> by my employer.
> 


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