.NET Java SOAP service change to WCF soap service

Question

I currently have soap web services in java. Due to some architectural changes we need to move the services to WCF.

If the signatures are the same, can the string URI be changed and the .NET proxy will continue to work without any changes to the code?

Answer 1

If the contract (WSDL) remains absolutely the same then you only need to change address to the new server hosting the service - that is the theory. Now you need to build the WCF service which will really have the same contract. That can be hard task. I would start with generating interfaces from existing WSDL describing Java service (use svcutil for that).