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Binary Data in SOAP Messages

The World Wide Web Consortium recently published three new Web Service Recommendations intended to improve the performance of Web Services applications that handle binary data.

XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) defines a "means of more efficiently serializing XML Infosets that [include binary content]."

Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) defines a "feature for optimizing the transmission and/or wire format of SOAP messages".

Resource Representation SOAP Header Block (RRSHB) describes the "semantics and serialization of a SOAP header block for carrying resource representations in SOAP messages".
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