Bulk Transfer Communication Protocols

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Eric Jahn edited this page Jan 3, 2014 · 1 revision

Reasons for Using Bulk Transfer Communication Protocols

When one system sends an XML file to another system over HTTP, the sending system has no standardized way of knowing whether the XML file actually validated and was successfully processed.

Issues Bulk Transfer Communication Protocols Must Overcome

For the receiving server to declare whether the received XML was successfully processed, it may take a long time. So the response for that may have to be delayed (asynchronous). Validation is usually much quicker, so that could probably be done on the fly (synchronously), especially if large XML files are chunked.

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