SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) is one
of a related pair of specifications that define conceptually how to optimize
the transmission and format of a SOAP message.
MTOM defines:
- How to optimize the transmission of base64binary data in SOAP messages
in abstract terms
- How to implement optimized MIME multipart serialization of SOAP messages
in a binding independent way using XOP
The implementation of MTOM relies on the related XML-binary Optimized Packaging
(XOP) specification. Because these two specifications are so closely linked,
they are normally referred to as MTOM/XOP.
The specification is published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) as
a W3C Recommendation at SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism.
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