SOAP attachments is a good way to go for transfering bulk data, as many SOAP implementations ensure that the data itself is never loaded into memory during the transfer.
GLUE, our own web services platform, has comprehensive support for SOAP attachments. it is free at http://www.themindelectric.com hope this helps, cheers, graham -----Original Message----- From: C Santosh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 11:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Craig Melsopp Subject: Re: XML scema in apache soap > In my case, we are trying to make Perl talk to Java in bio-informatics > field. We have specific XML schema for bio- data. I try to find the solution > to transfer huge data, you know the DNA right? ;) , via SOAP. However, when > I tried , using RPC-based, to transfer a java.util.Vector with 20,000 > elements, I encountered java.lang.InternalException. The object is so big > for JVM/HotSpot. For RPC-based, there is another *shortcoming*, that it > sends an object after the object is generated completely. Message-oriented > is more like a stream. > > Do you have any suggestion on my project? Thanks in advance. Have you tried SOAP with Attachments ? I have no idea if its better than the above 2 ways, or if apache-soap supports it.
