title: Integrating .NET application with Java/J2EE app via web services
body: <p>Assume we have a .NET application that exposes its web services. This app needs to be integrated with our J2EE application running on Weblogic. Both are internal applications so we don't worry too much about security. </p>
  
  <p>There are no really complex data structures/types so we should be able to map them between .NET and Java tier (or at least write adapters on the Java tier to ensure the match).</p>
  
  <p>What is the best approach of consuming these .NET web services in the J2EE application? </p>
  
  <p>The simple approach would be to just generate WSDLs for the .NET web services, and generate Java client classes using wsdl2java or other similar tool and see if that can work without adapters/changes, create unit tests, etc. But in case of data related challenges we may need to deal with XSD/Schemas, generating classes, etc.</p>
  
  <p>I know there is WSIT to deal with interoperability issues, but want to keep this as simple as possible. Any thoughts, ideas? </p>