ABSTRACT

Using Web Services, it is possible to send any type of information in any form of encryption. In this context, different techniques have been used to attach binary files in SOAP messages. Web services provide communication between different platforms by using standardized SOAP message protocols. Hence, it is often productive to implement web service interfaces for the integration of experimental infrastructure into a collaborative framework. Transfer and management of experimental data is an important problem. SOAP messaging is primarily oriented towards XML character data, with binary data transmitted with, for example, a base64 character encoding. However, as scienti?c experiments often generate binary data, transferring binary information by applying an encoding algorithm can slow down the performance of the system. The notion of web service attachment has been introduced to solve this problem. In this paper, we illustrate how we use web services with attachments to improve binary data transfer performance. This paper discusses complete example of how to use MTOM in JAX-WS.