RE: Best way to send attachments

[Tardif, Sebastien]

You have to differentiate between the representations made in a specific language of the attachment than the way the attachment is sent. By playing with some flag you can see an attachment in Java as a DataHandler, a byte[], or Image or many others. However they can all be transfered in the same way and the other end of the communication can use a different representation.   In Axis you can send the attachment using: SwA DIME xsd:base64Binary   The other end has to understand those Web Services standard. For example .NET doesn’t know about SwA. All implementation know about xsd:base64Binary.   If your attachment are big you don’t want or cannot use xsd:base64Binary because it doesn’t stream well and takes 33% more bandwidth than SwA or DIME.     -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Peddi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Best way to send attachments   Hi team, I did lot of research on Axis attachments but I am still not able to figure out the best way to send attachments. We currently use DataHandler which works fine with Java clients. But The requirement is to support non-java clients also. And I read that DataHandler does nto work with non-Java clients.   Can anyone clearly explain how to implement attachments using Axis server so that it can work with non-java clients. If you have a working sample, that would be really great!   Thanks Praveen   ************************************************************** Praveen Peddi Sr Software Engg, Context Media, Inc. email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:  401.854.3475 Fax:  401.861.3596 web: http://www.contextmedia.com ************************************************************** Context Media- "The Leader in Enterprise Content Integration"