Paper on very simple Java/.Net Introp

Ian Cartwright and I have written a paper after some experimentation with trying to make various .Net and Java containers and web servers communicate over the wire to each other using Web Services and auto-generated WSDL. We concluded that is not easy as many of the industrial strength J2EE servers or Web Services toolkits had a different view to the similar products in the Microsoft stack as to how to interpret and bind to a WSDL doc programatically. Anyway, we soon dumped Web Services and tried a REST inspired design that was very light on spec. Read the four page PDF