Similar experiences with web services via WCF. It was in dealing with anything published that wasn't .Net where it got difficult. PHP services were not compla

Similar experiences with web services via WCF. It was in dealing with anything published that wasn't .Net where it got difficult. PHP services were not complaint with their own WSDL, similar for internal types in Java from some systems. It was often a mess compared to the C# experience, hence everyone moving towards REST or simpler documentation that was easy to one-off as needed, or use an API client.