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Interop is Hard

Simon Fell: you can read as many WS-I docs as you like, they won't tell you that you really want to avoid trying to send a nil xsd:int to .NET.

I agree with Simon, Steve, Tim, and Gia.

Don't program inside out

If you find that you must use a toolkit to help with generating the contract, I'd recommend a technique that is similar to Steve's customer's: generate WSDL using a foreign toolkit, remove all unwarranted idioms and assumptions, and then try to import the result in the toolkit that you are using to develop the service.


Maybe you are interested in this comment of mine to the whole contract/interop story:
"Today and tomorrow: Will Indigo heal...? Explicitness is good, especially for Contracts" [link]

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Sam Ruby: Interop is Hard

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Excerpt from del.icio.us/tag/interop at

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