Hi,

I have implemented a web service using axis and I consume the web service from 
.Net. I have a need to send and receive binary data (office documents) but I 
haven't been able to work out how to use DIME attachements, so I have worked 
around this by simply turning the filestream into a byte array and handling 
this inside the complex types I already pass back and forth. The solution works 
great and also seems pretty fast, although I have not tried it for really 
massive documents yet. Can anyone tell me this disadvantages of doing this (if 
there are any). This seems much easier than implementing attachments and it 
also gets around any interop issues as I am just passing the binary content as 
a simple type (byte[]). What is the downside, if any, and are there any 
'gotchas' I am going to get caught out by??

/Steve

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