Send attachment with DIME

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I have never sent attachment with webservices.
Yesterday I got the challenge to redesign my solution that sends large XML
structures to a Java webservice. The reason was that the Java SOAP
implementation had problems consuming too large files that way. They
encountered a memory leak in the parser that made the whole mainframe
environment to crash! So the decided they should go for DIME attachments
instead.

I use VB.Net in VS2005.

Where do I begin?
Should I install WSE 3.0?

It was hard to find examples.
I found some Microsoft artcicles from 2002 and 2003 but no code examples.
When searching this forum for DIME I just received ONE result where the
writer recommended NOT to use DIME attachments .......

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Re: Send attachment with DIME

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Where do I begin?
Should I install WSE 3.0?
>
It was hard to find examples.
I found some Microsoft artcicles from 2002 and 2003 but no code
examples. When searching this forum for DIME I just received ONE
result where the writer recommended NOT to use DIME attachments
.......
>

DIME is obsolete and no longer supported in WSE 3.0. If you need DIME
support you should install WSE 2.0. DIME has been replaced by MTOM in WSE
3.0 - you should mention this to your Java developers.

Here's an example on how to use DIME (WSE 2.0)

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/DimeBufferedUpload.asp

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Re: Send attachment with DIME

Thanks, I will definitely tell him this right away!
I possible I will try to switch to MTOM attachments.

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RE: Send attachment with DIME

Your summary is correct!
I use .Net Framework 2.0 and have not yet used any of the WSE packages.
This means I can choose WSE 3.0 without hesitation.

Java team mentioned they could use several techniques for attachment.
But on request they told me this means they need to upgrade the "AXIS
to version 2". Sounds like they would avoid this.
They also asked if .Net supports plain MIME attachments, if so that might
be a possibility. Any disadvantages with that approach?

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RE: Send attachment with DIME

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news:F3F7A21D-FC23-4D67-89B3-5786E32B4670@mi crosoft.com:

Java team mentioned they could use several techniques for attachment.
But on request they told me this means they need to upgrade the "AXIS
to version 2". Sounds like they would avoid this.
They also asked if .Net supports plain MIME attachments, if so that might
be a possibility. Any disadvantages with that approach?

I think what they want is WS-Attachments? Again that's been superceeded by
MTOM.

MTOM is the suggested replacement by W3C - so DIME/WS-Attachments/etc. etc.
are non-standard and obsolete.

You can try using WSE 2.0 in .NET 2.0 - it might work (probably will?).

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

RE: Send attachment with DIME

Thanks for your reply,

Would you further describe the "plain MIME" you mentioned? I know that
plain html page based form can post data via multi-part form request. So
I'm wondering whether your service vendor will use a http file upload like
approach to let you post these info? Anyway, it does be common that when
the data be transfer is too large, webservice will not be the proper
solution and maybe a raw http form post or even socket communication will
perform better.

Let me know if you need any further ideas or help on this.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:40:03 -0700

Your summary is correct!
I use .Net Framework 2.0 and have not yet used any of the WSE packages.
This means I can choose WSE 3.0 without hesitation.

Java team mentioned they could use several techniques for attachment.
But on request they told me this means they need to upgrade the "AXIS
to version 2". Sounds like they would avoid this.
They also asked if .Net supports plain MIME attachments, if so that might
be a possibility. Any disadvantages with that approach?