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Is it possible to use MTOM in reponse of CXF RESTful Web Service

I'm using CXF 2.2.12 library for my Web Services.

Is it possible to use MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism) in RESTful response?

Would appreciate any links to docs/tutorials regarding this. Thanx!

Solution

  • MTOM is specific to SOAP so I would argue that it is incompatible with a RESTful architecture. However, HTTP supports multi-part content naturally, so you can do everything that MTOM does in HTTP directly.

    If you really wanted you could use XOP for packaging your multi-part content like MTOM does, but it really isn't necessary.

    MTOM is solving a problem that HTTP already solved.