Friday, October 20, 2006

SOAP and Interoperability : Urban Legends

With the advent of SOAP and the new catch phrase "Interop" I am left wondering just how interoperable Java and C# are.

All documentation on the subject is always one side. If you write a Java web service the documentation assumes you will be connecting with a Java client. The same applies for C#. C# web service assumes C# client.

This week I have been researching Glassfish as a replacement for our failing Tomcat (nothing wrong with Tomcat, it just can't deliver the quality requirements for the project).

Alot of the documentation deals with setting up basic web service RPC style, none deal with the concept of request and response objects. I finally managed to figure out how to do this. I did come across a fantastic article that does deal with C# and Java interop available here.

Once I have completed the research I need to do I will post some examples of things I found relatively hard to find information on.