Java Web Services

[Hunterlmc]

How difficult is it to reference (and work with) Java web services in a C# application?

Laurence -

[Phil Weber]

If it adheres to the relevant standards, a Web service is a Web service; it makes no difference what language it's written in. Simply Add Web Reference in Visual Studio, navigate to the WSDL file, and start calling the service.

[Hunterlmc]

But, if a method in a web service returns more than just simple data (for example, the java equivalent of a data table), how will I deal with something like that?

Laurence -

[Phil Weber]

In that case, the Web service does not adhere to WS standards. I would use a different, standards-compliant Web service.

If you're forced to use it, you could receive the response as a string and manually parse the XML.