I've got a program that uses BufferedReader to read it's data. About a year ago my input source started showing up with binary characters, which of course breaks. After spending time trying to ...

SOAP applications often have to deal with more than just simple messages. The payload for a SOAP message can often include a word processing or PDF document, image, or other binary file. This article ...

For each byte in the original binary file, you now get two characters in the resulting XML document. For transferring large binary data sets, this is an important consideration.