Understanding MTOM-Based Media Object Web Services

With Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS), you can send binary attachments such as images or files along with web services requests. JAX-WS adds support for optimized transmission of binary data as specified by SOAP MTOM. MTOM is the W3C Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism, a method for sending binary data to and from web services. Media Object published business services leverage the MTOM specification to transmit media objects as binary data in SOAP messages.