Comments on: Talking to a Tomcat-Hosted Web Service from .NET http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/11/05/talking-to-a-tomcat-hosted-web-service-from-net/ Musings on the craft and business of software development Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:21:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris R. Chapman http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/11/05/talking-to-a-tomcat-hosted-web-service-from-net/comment-page-1/#comment-3069 Chris R. Chapman Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:06:26 +0000 http://bobondevelopment.com/2007/11/05/talking-to-a-tomcat-hosted-web-service-from-net/#comment-3069 Excellent post - I love this kind of investigative research that pulls in something from an apparently unrelated angle that turns up a valuable clue. I think you're on the right track - I worked on a project a couple of years ago with similar circumstances. In our case, the breakdown was because the Java team were *hand coding* their SOAP packets, and introduced bogus characters that caused the service proxies to barf on the .NET side. We used SOAPScope a lot to ferret the issue out and pinpoint it. The Java guys were in denial until we showed them that it was their fault... ;-) Excellent post – I love this kind of investigative research that pulls in something from an apparently unrelated angle that turns up a valuable clue.

I think you’re on the right track – I worked on a project a couple of years ago with similar circumstances. In our case, the breakdown was because the Java team were *hand coding* their SOAP packets, and introduced bogus characters that caused the service proxies to barf on the .NET side.

We used SOAPScope a lot to ferret the issue out and pinpoint it. The Java guys were in denial until we showed them that it was their fault… ;-)

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