----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Jericho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 7:51 PM Subject: Re: Streaming RPC calls?
> The problem with attachments is that the data is in an unstructured binary > format. What I want to send/receive is a list (maybe millions) of objects > with a complex type, which I want mapped into beans and stored in a > database. It needs to be done in a standard SOAP type way because the > clients are to be written by third parties. > > Am I correct to assume that if I simply pass the objects in a customised > "array" class, and write a serializer/deserializer for this class, that I > can divert them straight from/to a database instead of in memory? > > Can I somehow specify to the client that this array needs to be serialized > depth-first? > > If this isn't possible using RPC, am I correct to assume that it would be > quite easy using the plain SOAP framework? I have no idea. But I do know you dont want the back end to feed it into a DOM representation, because millions of XML elements are a sure way to bring your server to its knees.
