Use MTOM to Efficiently Transmit Binary Content in SOAP
Currently JSON-based REST services are en vogue, but when it comes to integrating enterprise services, SOAP is still widely used. In a recent project I had to deal with binary content sent to a third party SOAP-Service. Thanks to great tooling, calling a SOAP service is not a big deal. But the binary data varied in size from a few kB to many MB, and this brought up some issues in transmission size and memory usage. That's where MTOM comes to the rescue, a standard for efficiently tranmitting binary data in a SOAP request. This article published on DZone describes, what MTOM can do for you by converting a tiny spring client-server project from default SOAP to MTOM.