SOAP Calls in OBIEE Plug Ins

Question

Hi ,
there are 3 methods by which a user would access OBIEE:
1) Via a browser using http for Analytics/BI Publisher web clients
2) Via a Word plug-in using Soap
3) Via an Excel plug-in using Soap
We would like to know the nature of traffic in case of Word Plug In and Excel Plug In i.e., whether the data is transferred in the form of binary data or xml format or in a plain text format from plug ins to BI Office Server.
Please help.
Thanks & regards
Neeraj

Answer 1

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On dynamic C++ memory management in Adobe Photoshop plug-in
As there are some people interested in the question I'll try to explain a technique I use at present.
I have two memory allocators:
a) based on Adobe's Basic Suite for small blocks (under 2Kbytes)
b) based on Adobe's Handle Suite for large blocks (above 2Kbytes)
operator new and operator new[] allocate 4 additional bytes for every allocation, store in the first 4 bytes handle to memory allocator used for this new or new[] call, and return pointer after this handle.
operator delete and operator delete[] takes memory allocator handle from the pre-pointer 4 bytes, and dellocate memory using correct memory allocator.
This strategy works well.
Does anybody know a better dynamic memory management technique to use with Adobe SDK for Adobe Photoshop plug-ins?