Term and Technlogy - MTOM

Term and Technology

MTOM

Introduction

 (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism)

MTOM is the W3C Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism, a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from Web services.

MTOM is usually used with XOP (XML-binary Optimized Packaging).

 And NOTE on the MTOM

 MTOM only optimizes element content that is in the canonical lexical representation of the xs:base64Binary data type. Since there is no standard way to indicate whether data is in the canonical lexical representation, the mechanism for applying MTOM is implementation dependent.

The use of MTOM is a hop-by-hop contract between one SOAP node and the next. There is no guarantee that the optimization will be preserved if there are multiple SOAP nodes involved.

Resources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Transmission_Optimization_Mechanism

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jevdemon/archive/2005/05/05/415126.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa751889.aspx