Web Services Attachments

Any advice on the following would be greatly appreciated!
I am trying to send an attachment to CRMOD via a java web service. I am able to create the message fine in Soap UI so I know the encoding is correct and the structure of the message is correct.
My java webservice will send the message but all attachments are interpreted as text. The proxy generator I'm using is axis2. The attachment method is calling for a datahandler and i don't know what to feed it (inputstream, outputstream, bytes, string). String works but is only interpreted as a text document. What shoud be the mime type for the datahandler, I've tried application/octet-stream and text/plain.
I'm using MimeUtility.encode as the encoder but it's cumbersome, is there a better one out there?
I can provide much more specifics if needed, a snip it would be great as well. I've been working on this for over a week. I can't capture the message from axis2 but the debug objects in eclipse look ok.
Thanks,
James

Hi,
this is a new WS Interface released in R15 but there are somelimitation
1. This is exposed only for Activity, you will not find this in other business entity
2. You can's upload the file by using this, u can use this only for URL attachement.
Dinesh

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