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I actually ran into the following problem (which in the IDL-based world would have been trivial): We have a Web Service application written in Java which is accessed by a multitude of clients (Java, VB, Delphi, Perl, etc).
Now we need to allow other departments to also offer the exact same service, so that all the existing clients can consume them. The problem is, those other server will need to be written in other lanaguages (for legacy reasons). Thus, now we need to implement the exact same Web Service interface, say, in Visual Basic. The obvious way to do it would be to take the existing WSDL generated by the Java Web Service, and use it to automatically create Visual Basic skeleton code for the VB-based Web Service. Problem is, there is no such obvious way of doing this!!! Even finding a tool to do so has become a nightmare for us.
BTW, if anyone knows of such a tool that can generate VB, C/C++, Delphi, PowerBuilder, and/or C# server-side skeleton code, please let me know (I'd figure some tool vendors will jump into creating such a needed tool?).
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