Faster Data Transport Means Faster Web Services with MTOM/XOP

MTOM/XOP provides optimized SOAP message transmission, which boosts the performance of web services. Get an overview of the technology and see it in action with JAX-WS 2.0.

by Young Yang

June 19, 2007

he technologies of Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) and XML-Binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) are concerned with the fundamental issue of binary data transmission, which is of great importance to web service performance. Since becoming W3C standards in 2005, XOP and MTOM have been quickly and widely adopted in next-generation SOAP engines. In hindsight, one has to wonder why they were not proposed earlier in the development of web services or as part of the original SOAP specification.

This article introduces MTOM and XOP, discusses the problems they address, and then uses an example to demonstrate how to work with them in JAX-WS 2.0.

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