Kit Lau [http://community.jboss.org/people/batikit] created the discussion "What is the best approach to send/receive XML/CSV file between web service?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/591431#591431 -------------------------------------------------------------- Hi I would like to know what is the best approach to send/receive text-based file (XML/CSV) between webservices ? The client webservice we have is a RESTful type webservice, it will call to my SOAP-based webservice to: 1 - put a XML file to save a XML file into database 2 - pull a XML file from a database I will be using JBOSS developer studio (Redhat) , EAP 5.0 and JBoss-Native I have build a simple WS using Jboss-native where the getter method would return the "attachment" to the client as DataHandler object. The issue is that  the returned object is always in binary even though I have the @XMLMIMETYPE set to "text/plain" . (I have a feeling my code is hitting the same issue in : http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbossws-issues/2010-July/006944.html http://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/jbossws-issues/2010-July/006944.html ) I do not need to send binary file so I would like to find out is there an alternative way to send text file without the use of DataHandler. P.S the XML /CSV file could be quite larget (500k to 3000k) Any recommandation/suggestion are much appreciated Thanks kit -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/591431#591431] Start a new discussion in JBoss Web Services Development at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]