WSIT Binary Attachment Scheme (MTOM/XOP)

Topics

  • What is and Why XOP/MTOM?
  • SOAP with Attachment vs XOP/MTOM

What is and Why XOP & MTOM?

Motivations for XOP and MTOM 

  • Two options of sending binary data via XML 
    • Option #1: Embedding - Base64 encoding 
    • Option #2: Referencing - SOAP with Attachment 
  • Problem of Base64 encoding 
    • Increased size of the data 
    • Added performance overhead 
  • Problem of SOAP with Attachment 
    • Data is external to the document, and it isn't part of the message Infoset, thus requires two different ways of processing data

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