Gidley Gossipings

06 Dec, 2004

I have been playing most the day getting C# to talk to Java over SOAP using AXIS. It is quite wierd how little information their is on this combination or the interoperability issues.

For a start you won't be able to use your basic java objects and SOAP really can't cope with Collections.

Then you have to deal with extremely wierd problems like C# won't accept an Array of strings from Axis. But appears to accept an array of almost any other object. Simple work around it to create a class with a string member variable and send an array of that!

It is just wierd that SOAP is actually quite poor at talking between different platforms!