>>Hi,
>>>Has anybody written .NET Client to consume Java Web Service runing on Apache web server?
>>>What is the best way to approach it?
>>
>>Why is the server platform relevant? The whole point of web services is that they're platform independent....
>>Regards,
>>Viv
>
>In a perfect, theoretical world, yes!
>
>However, the reality is that there are interoperability issues. A company is having trouble consumming our web service written .NET +WSE. We are having trouble consuming their web service written in Java with the client stub created from the WSDL their service provided.
>
>As matter of fact, this an organization dedicated to web service interoperability. Check this out http://ws-i.org/.

Well, I handcrafted a bit of code to make vfp talk to AXXIS-web services asking for client-side certificate security as well some XMLHTTP communication layer. If they are using AXXIS on tomcat, there can be trouble the way the WS is set up in their servers (in essence resticting the communication) and in the way AXXIS mangles their session ID's into specific headers not really intuitive after reading the WSDL only <g>.

Best approach: sniff the wire.

regards

thomas