SOAP with Attachments (SwA) or
MIME for Web Services is the use of
web services to send and receive files with a combination of SOAP and
MIME, primarily over
HTTP.
Note that SwA is not a new specification, but rather a mechanism for using the existing SOAP and MIME facilities to perfect the transmission of files using Web Services invocations.
Status
SwA is a W3C Note. It was submitted as a proposal, but it was not adopted by the W3C. Instead, MTOM is the W3C Recommendation for handling binary data in SOAP messages. With the release of
SOAP 1.2 additionally the note SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature
[ SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature by the W3C's of 8 June 2004] was published.
See also
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DIME
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MTOM
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SOAP with Attachments API for Java
External links
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Note by the World Wide Web Consortium on 11 December 2000
