Chapter 14. Web Services Interoperability, Part 2: Sending Binary Data

Up to this point in the book, the discussions and samples of interoperability using XML Web services have shown request/response style method calls. In our previous samples, we’ve seen clients in both .NET and Java ask for recommendations to buy and sell stocks and then for the Web service to reply with an appropriate value. These examples are fine for demonstrating data returning from a method, but sometimes an application has a requirement to send or receive binary data . Examples of binary data that an application might need to send or receive are a file (possibly even an executable file) from a Web site, an attachment to an e-mail (such as a document or file), and a collection ...

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