SOA Suite 11g provides a variety of ways to exchange binary data amongst applications and endpoints. The illustration below is a bird's-eye view of all the features in SOA Suite to facilitate such exchanges.

Handling Binary data in SOA Suite 11g Composites

Samples and Step-by-Step Tutorials

A few step-by-step tutorials have been uploaded to java.net that illustrate key concepts related to Binary content handling within SOA composites. Each sample consists of a fully built composite project that can be deployed and tested, together with a Readme doc with screenshots to build the project from scratch.

• Binary Content Handling within File Adapter Samples [Opaque, Streaming, Attachments]
  
• SOAP with Attachments [SwA] Sample
  
• MTOM Sample
  
• Mediator Pass-through for attachments Sample
  

For detailed information on binary content and large document handling within SOA Suite, refer to Chapter 42 of the SOA Suite Developer's Guide.

Handling Binary data in Oracle B2B

The following diagram illustrates how Oracle B2B facilitates exchange of binary documents between SOA Suite and Trading Partners.