The Web services gateway supports Web services that pass attachments in a MIME message.
Why and when to perform this task
This support is included in the SOAP over HTTP channel.
Attachments are carried through the various gateway components and passed to the target service. The content MIME type of each attachment is preserved.
When the target service is deployed to a Java API for XML-based Remote Procedure Call (JAX-RPC) compliant server, you can access the attachments on the target service using the javax.activation.DataHandler handler.
The WSDL representing a SOAP messages with attachments service must define the attachment parts in the binding section. The mime:multipartRelated, mime:part and mime:content tags are used to describe the attachment.
For more information, see the following topics:
The following scenarios are not supported: