Appendix F. SAAJ Attachments
In addition to the resources it gives you when building simple SOAP messages, SAAJ can help you build SOAP Messages with Attachments (SwA). Appendix E pointed out that SwA is not supported by the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0. Supported or not, SwA is a major piece of functionality in SAAJ, so it's covered by this book. Still, I recommend you use SwA only when your project requires you to.
SwA was covered in detail in Appendix E, but a review of the basic concepts here will be helpful. SwA uses the MIME message format to allow SOAP documents to refer to non-XML data, such as images, documents, digital signatures, and serialized objects. A MIME message (also called a package) is divided into parts, each of which is a block ...
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