title: Strategy for RESTfully posting many entities
body: <p>I am still in the process of getting comfortable with doing things the REST way.</p>
  
  <p>In my situation, client software will be interacting with a RESTful service.  Rarely, the client will upload its entire database of entities (each entity serializes into a roughly 5kb chunk of xml).  </p>
  
  <p>Perhaps I'm wrong, but the proper RESTful strategy seems to be to cycle through each entity and individually POST each one.  However, there may plausibly be tens of thousands of these entities, and somehow so many rapid-fire POSTs doesn't seem kosher.  </p>
  
  <p>In this situation, it feels like packaging all the entities into one big xml representation would violate the RESTful way of doing things, but it would also avoid the need for thousands of POSTs. </p>
  
  <p>Is there some standard-practice for accomplishing this?  Thanks in advance!</p>