How to invoke a WSIT endpoint from a WCF client ?

You've developed a reliable, secure transactional and interoperable Web service using Web Services Interoperability Technology (WSIT, aka Project Tango) plug-in in NetBeans 5.5.1 and deployed on GlassFish v2. NetBeans IDE provide a very seamless experience to build such a Web service. The primary goal of WSIT is to provide first-class interoperability with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), the Web services component of .NET 3.0 framework. Once the Web service is deployed, you'd like to invoke this Web service by writing a client using Visual Studio. It's not straight forward to do so today and this entry highlights the steps required to do that.

1. If not already done, create a reliable WSIT endpoint and deploy on GlassFish v2 following the screencast #ws3.
2. For creating a WCF client, install the following software
   1. If not using Vista, then install .NET 3.0 Framework runtime.
   2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition (available via MSDN) - There are additional requirements for Express editions (free lightweight versions of Visual Studio)
   3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition SP1
   4. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition SP1 Update
   5. Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for .NET 3.0 Framework (WCF & WPF), Nov 2006 CTP - For Express editions, Windows Vista SDK is required as well for WCF scenarios.
3. Start Visual Studio
4. Create a new Visual C#, Windows, Console Application. Program.cs is shown in the main Visual Studio window.
5. In Solution Explorer, right-click on the project name and select "Add Service Reference ...". This is the big difference. If you select "Add Web Reference ...", then this creates a proxy and app.config for .NET 2.0 framework. But WSIT is about interoperability with .NET 3.0 framework.
6. Specify the location of the WSIT endpoint, in our case (http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService?wsdl).
7. In the Main function of Program.cs, add the logic to invoke the generated proxy. The code looks like:

   using System;
   using System.Collections.Generic;
   using System.Text;
   using ConsoleApplication1.localhost;

   namespace ConsoleApplication1
   {
       class Program
       {
           static void Main(string[] args)
           {
               NewWebServiceClient client = new NewWebServiceClient();
               Console.WriteLine(client.sayHello("Duke"));
           }
       }
   }

8. Build the solution by selecting "Build", "Build Solution" (default shortcut Ctrl+Shift+B).
9. Run ConsoleApplication1\bin\Debug\ConsoleApplication1.exe. This will make a request to WSIT endpoint and get a response back.

The generated app.config file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <system.serviceModel>
    <bindings>
      <customBinding>
        <binding name="NewWebServicePortBinding">
          <reliableSession acknowledgementInterval="00:00:00.2000000" flowControlEnabled="true"
              inactivityTimeout="00:10:00" maxPendingChannels="4" maxRetryCount="8"
              maxTransferWindowSize="8" ordered="true" />
          <textMessageEncoding maxReadPoolSize="64" maxWritePoolSize="16" 
              messageVersion="Soap11WSAddressing10" writeEncoding="utf-8">
              <readerQuotas maxDepth="32" maxStringContentLength="8192" maxArrayLength="16384" 
                  maxBytesPerRead="4096" maxNameTableCharCount="16384" />
          </textMessageEncoding>
          <httpTransport manualAddressing="false" maxBufferPoolSize="524288"
              maxReceivedMessageSize="65536" allowCookies="false" authenticationScheme="Anonymous"
              bypassProxyOnLocal="false" hostNameComparisonMode="StrongWildcard"
              keepAliveEnabled="true" maxBufferSize="65536" proxyAuthenticationScheme="Anonymous"
              realm="" transferMode="Buffered" unsafeConnectionNtlmAuthentication="false"
              useDefaultWebProxy="true" />
        </binding>
      </customBinding>
    </bindings>
    <client>
      <endpoint address="http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService"
          binding="customBinding" bindingConfiguration="NewWebServicePortBinding"
          contract="ConsoleApplication1.localhost.NewWebService" name="NewWebServicePort" />
    </client>
  </system.serviceModel>
</configuration>

Here are the SOAP messages that get exchanged over the wire:

====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:request]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
            xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
  <s:Header>
    <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm/CreateSequence</a:Action>
    <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:3429a390-96df-4f26-bd8c-fc85bd8f1858</a:MessageID>
    <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</a:To>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <CreateSequence xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <AcksTo>
        <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
      </AcksTo>
      <Offer>
        <Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</Identifier>
      </Offer>
    </CreateSequence>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
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====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:response]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <S:Header>
  <To xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</To>
    <Action xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm/CreateSequenceResponse</Action>
    <MessageID xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">uuid:b51f92ee-9ab9-4a90-a61e-d5dd3a77a0f9</MessageID>
    <RelatesTo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">urn:uuid:3429a390-96df-4f26-bd8c-fc85bd8f1858</RelatesTo>
  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    <ns2:CreateSequenceResponse xmlns:ns6="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" xmlns:ns5="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-secext-1.0.xsd" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</ns2:Identifier>
      <ns2:Accept>
        <ns2:AcksTo>
          <ns4:Address>http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</ns4:Address>
        </ns2:AcksTo>
      </ns2:Accept>
    </ns2:CreateSequenceResponse>
  </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
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====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:request]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:r="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
  <s:Header>
    <r:Sequence s:mustUnderstand="1">
      <r:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</r:Identifier>
      <r:MessageNumber>1</r:MessageNumber>
    </r:Sequence>
    <a:Action s:mustUnderstand="1">sayHello</a:Action>
    <a:MessageID>urn:uuid:d9c8b864-f236-40ad-a4c0-72c42565855f</a:MessageID>
    <a:ReplyTo>
      <a:Address>http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</a:Address>
    </a:ReplyTo>
    <a:To s:mustUnderstand="1">http://localhost:8080/WebApplication1/NewWebServiceService</a:To>
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body>
    <sayHello xmlns="http://test/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <name xmlns="">Duke</name>
    </sayHello>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
============
====[com.sun.xml.ws.assembler.server:response]====
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <S:Header>
    <To xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing/anonymous</To>
    <Action xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">http://test/NewWebService/sayHelloResponse</Action>
    <MessageID xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">uuid:9091661c-c817-4411-b8aa-7f4f937162da</MessageID>
    <RelatesTo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">urn:uuid:d9c8b864-f236-40ad-a4c0-72c42565855f</RelatesTo>
    <ns2:Sequence xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</ns2:Identifier>
      <ns2:MessageNumber>1</ns2:MessageNumber>
    </ns2:Sequence>
    <ns2:AckRequested xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
      <ns2:Identifier>urn:uuid:402432c9-b191-4912-a04a-69bbdbd1b2d3</ns2:Identifier>
    </ns2:AckRequested>
    <ns2:SequenceAcknowledgement xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing" xmlns:ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ws/2006/05/rm" xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2005/02/rm">
    <ns2:Identifier>uuid:d01cff2f-9192-4672-942b-2ec284a93802</ns2:Identifier>
    <ns2:AcknowledgementRange Upper="1" Lower="1"></ns2:AcknowledgementRange>
    </ns2:SequenceAcknowledgement>
  </S:Header>
  <S:Body>
    <ns2:sayHelloResponse xmlns:ns2="http://test/">
      <return>Hello Duke</return>
    </ns2:sayHelloResponse>
  </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>
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The same programming model will work for creating a WCF client if you add security or transactions support on the WSIT endpoint.

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