title: Action vs Reply action WCF
body: <p>What's the use of action/reply action for service operation in WCF. So far, what I've understood is; action is used by WSDL to identify the service operation to which the message from the client belongs and in return reply action is used by service operation to identify the caller to which reply message belong --> Please correct me if I am wrong with this!</p>
  
  <p>Now, I want to understand; what's the real use <strong>(apart from handling anonymous messages by using aster ix [*])</strong>, I mean this could well be handled internally by WCF instead of exposing it to the developer.</p>
  
  <p>Also, why is action and replyaction required at all? I mean, we already have a name property for the service operation to identify the method and when I call Proxy.SomeMethod() then somemethod is already mapped to the Name property and it should be enough to identify the destination method for the message and similarly the replyaction. Please clarify.</p>
  
  <p>Can I please get a simple real world scenario/or link to that to understand Action/ReplyAction in real life.</p>
  
  <p>Many Thanks.</p>