Transferring large binary data with web services

    Prerequisites 1)      Basic understanding about web service 2)      Knowledge of base 64 encoding 3)      Knowledge of MTOM   Refer resource section for information on these topics.   Introduction Web service has been evolved from simple request-response mechanism to object oriented style support and now large data transfer. Large data may be of various types like binary, images, database record export in XML or other format etc. Normally, the large data transfer is avoided with the web service however in unavoidable circumstances, if it is required to do; you have few options which will be discussed later in the article.   There is couple of big challenges during the large data transfer through web service     1)      How do you make sure that you meet the performance of the application and it should not deteriorate? 2)      Memory constraint. Huge files should not be hold in the memory completely.   We’ll discuss these challenges later in the article. Now, let’s discuss the various data transfer strategies/options to transfer the binary data.   [Note: This article only provides conceptual knowledge.]   Binary data transfer strategies   In the following sections I’ll discuss the various data transfer strategies with their advantage...

Date: June, 11 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/adhirmehta/archive/2010/06/09/transferring-large-binary-data-web-services

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