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Asked: 2026-06-07T04:13:36+00:00

I have N quantity of clients, and each one has to implement a web

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I have N quantity of “clients”, and each one has to implement a web service for my .Net app to consume. I dont want to add a service reference for each client because they can change at any moment, as well as the URLs, so I store the URLs on a database and dinamycally create the endpoint depending on which client I want to access.

I was wondering if I have to force my clients to write the same type of services(either WCF or JAX-WS) or I can still connect to one or another without writing some kind of conditional logic.

ie. If JAX-WS then "do this" ELSE IF WCF "do other stuff"

Also I was wondering if adding WS-*(wshttpbinding) security would add more complexity for the interoperability(or interchangeability) of the two technologies.

Any comments about this approach would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s possible to implement this without having to use an if-else , all clients/implementations (.NET and Java) must to use the same contract (WSDL) which should not be a big issue.

    For the WS-* this is quite easy using only .NET BUT it’s hard (not impossible) to get it working from .NET to Java so I usually end up doing basicHttp using SSL with either basicauthentication (username/password) or certificates. This is a lot easier than wsHttpBinding from .NET to Java.

    Like Cheeso says, start with the WSDL, i.e. create a client and service in .NET, this will give you a WSDL, then take that WSDL and use it to implement the Java clients.

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