.NET client consuming Java Webservices.

Hi,

I'm absolutely new to web service and have a kinda basic question about java .net interoperability. Hope this is the right place to ask.

I have this very simple java webservice:

package weird;



public class Weird {

    public double getD(double d)

    {

        return d;

    }

}

I have a java client and it works fine.

Then I used the .NET wsdl tool to create a C# proxy from the wsdl and I created a c#.net client to consume it.

I ended up having a client like this (which does work):

Weird q = new Weird();

double extraDouble;

bool extraBool;

q.getD(10, true, out extraDouble, out extraBool);  // the getD signature is getD(double, bool, out double, out bool)

Console.WriteLine("10 is " + strangeDouble);

My question is:

Did I mess up somewhere that caused the proxy to have such a bizzare stub method for such an simple operation

of passing and returning a simple datatype (double)? since I expected .NET to have an intuitive way of doing thing.

I can see that the extraDouble is passed as reference to capture the return value,

but what on earth the 2 boolean variables are supposed to do there?

I'd greatly appreciate if anyone'd give me some explanation why this is the case; or that it is just the (dirty) way it works.

Thanks a lot.