Hi Nicolas Fonrose, You are right. I did do the convertion between string and byte array in reverse direction on client side and server side.
Kaikuo Luo "Nicolas Fonrose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Law, Your solution is good but I think it is not a general answer to the "SOAP message compression problem" since it may impact the interface of your service. For instance if a method from a WebService returns an big int array (int[]), you cannot directly use your technique. int[] myMethod(int someParam) You would need to transform the big int array into a string and by the way modify the signature of the method of your WebService. String myMethod(int someParam) Then you can compress the string on the server and uncompress it on the client. A good solution to compress SOAP messages would be to use interceptors but I think there is no such thing in Apache SOAP. Cheers, Nicolas -----Original Message----- From: Law Kaikuo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Data Compression using Apache SOAP] Importance: Low The answer is yes you can. In my last project, I need to transmit data contained in XML files, because files are usually very large (> 5 mega), so I compress them first using gzip or zip, then send them piece by piece, and assemble them back into the files and unzip... Kaikuo Luo "Mohssin Assaban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to compres the data transported in the soap envelope using apache soap? I m developing an application wich returns a large count of records. But the time needed to transfer all this data (in one time) is verry long. In the Microsof implementation of soap is it possible to use some dataformats to transfer such large of data. Does some one know how I can do this. Thanks Mohssin
