The World Wide Web Consortium has released three W3C Recommendations to improve Web services performance by standardizing the transmission of large binary data. "Web services have just become faster and more usable," said Yves Lafon (W3C). Read the press release and testimonials and visit the Web services home page.
* Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging" (XOP) allows efficient serialization of XML element content.
* Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes.
* The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message.
