Java Web Service with .NET Client

Question

Hi All I have been given a .WSDL file for a web service and i need to use the web service using my .NET client [ windows based ] application. I am in need to send a Soap Header values while i am requesting a methods in the Web Service. In the Jave side they have used some frame work and they haven't created any separate class for the SOAP header. But my .NET cleint needs to send a SOAP header information. I think this is a extremely different scenario. Can anybody help me out and solve my problem. Regards S.S.Ashok

spgilmore · Answer

Soap headers seem intimidating because the SOAP spec doesn't strictly define them or any way to define them. SOAP headers are usually an oral agreement to write cooperative code between the developer of the webservice and the developer of the client. As a result the webservice client unit can't generate classes for the headers because they're not defined in the WSDL. They're really not too bad though. There is a whole section in the SDK help entitled USING SOAP HEADERS which I recommend reading. It covers almost all of it. The only trick is knowing what to put in the headers.