Question

I have to communicate (using .NET) with a web service running on Axis 1.2. Using two .NET tools and the WSDL I have created C# proxies however I ran into problems such that:

1) WSDL.exe created a proxy which lacks input parameters for methods. e.g. if there should be such a method:

AReturnType AMethod(AnInputType);

the created proxy had such a method:

void AMethod();

2) I’ve read that instead of WSDL.exe, SVCUTIL.exe is recommended. So I’ve created the proxies with SVCUTIL, however ran into the infamous problem of NULL returned objects. Unfortunately I could not find any suitable solution.

So I am willing to do the setup manually. Here’s what I have:

• SoapUI parses the WSDL well, can inspect SOAP/XML requests/responses.
• Axis WSDL2JAVA generates proper Java code, and it works well
• Sending XML/SOAP requests with HttpWebRequest generates proper XML/SOAP responses.
• I have tried generating XSD and C# objects using XSD.EXE tools and serializing XML responses (obtained with previous step) into those objects.

So what do you suggest? Is there a way to manually create the proxy somehow? Or can generated Java code help me somehow?

Answer 1

There is a set of predefined interop bindings that connect WCF clients with services in the Java world.