Thursday, August 26, 2004

Question: Interop with ASP.NET's SOAP

So are there any SOAP gurus out there among my regular readers?  I have a question about the current status of SOAP interop.

The SourceGear Vault server is an ASP.NET Web Service.  People want the ability to communicate with Vault from a fairly wide variety of platforms.  Are there any non-Microsoft implementations of SOAP or Web Services which can painlessly talk to ASP.NET's implementation?

Whenever I visit the SOAP-related websites, I see lots of evidence that all the SOAP implementors are carefully testing for compliance with specs and test suites.  I admire this level of discipline, but it doesn't answer my question.  I want recommendations from somebody's actual experience.  I want to know which SOAP implementations "Just Work" as a client against a server implemented by ASP.NET.

Anybody know?