SOAP MTOM

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. For further information refer to the following links: