Switching between .Net Webservice and Java Webservice by changing URL

Question

Here is the situation. I have received a WSDL (and included XSD) from someone that is generated by an Apache/Tomcat server (Java). The company i do a project for, prefers .NET so i used wsdl.exe to generate a partial class and created the webservice.

Then I created a .NET client (in this case I am using VB.NET) that has a web reference to the java wsdl. This works fine. Then I change the url using code and make it point to my newly created .NET service but i cannot seem to get it to work. Doing it the other way round, also doesnt seem to work.

Been fiddling a bit with the namespaces and the service name but can't seem to crack it. Keeps giving me an error about HTTP header unable to find . as a method. This indicates a transport problem.

I really do not want to revert to plan B, being the creation of a Java Webservice and then linking this to the .NET environment. I know this will work since you will never have to change the urls.

Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

So to summarise you have:
SERVER SIDE: java, WSDL: java generated
.NET client -> java server - WORKS .NET client -> .NET server -> FAILS

If thats the case this has not much to do with Java!
But I do know as I aluded to earlier that .NET servers are fussy about the soap action header.
Is there a soapAction in your WSDL?
If so, you need to send that value, but I don't know how to do this in .NET (Google would be your friend here).
If not, check out the comments in this question for how to determine the required soap action header value: stackoverflow.com/questions/2262781/soap-action-wsdl

Answer 2

After a bit of searching through the devine knowledge base (Google), i have managed to get this fixed.

In addition to being very carefull in specifying the portnames (the default ones are not always what is requested so you need to override it) but most importantly, i found that adding

as part of the asm class header solved my problem. Now all I need to do is find out why?

But trust me, it works...

I found the solution here