Origional Question:

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Beta 1 does not support WSDL. However, SOAP Toolkit 2.0 contains a tool

called wsdlgen.exe which produces wsdl for resgistered COM Components.

However, if I try to register a .NET webservice assembly dll using the

Regasm tool of SDK and try to use the wsdlgen.exe on it, I encounter

some

error? Is there no way you can make a wsdl end point for .NET created

webservices except when one chooses to write it all mannually?



Prasad DV



ScottGu Answer:

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Hi Prasad,



At the time that we were finalizing Beta1, WSDL was still not finalized

-- which is why we shipped support for "SDL" instead (as a historical

note: this was the official contract language of SOAP before WSDL).  In

Beta2 we will be upgrading our web service support to naturally support

WSDL -- which will allow you easily interop accross any SOAP compliant

web service implementation.  Unfourtunately until then you'll have to

manually create your own WSDL contract. :-(



Note that we've actually been working closely with a number of 3rd

Parties -- including IBM and the Apache Organization -- to do interop

testing accross our various SOAP implementations.  Our collective goal

is to ensure that you can use any implementation or any platform to talk

to any other implementation on any other platform.  We think this is

going to open up some really exciting opportunities in web development.





Hope this helps,



Scott