To consume a web service that is implemented in a technology other than ColdFusion, the web service must have one of the following sets of options:

• rpc as the SOAP binding style and encoding as the encodingStyle
• document as the SOAP binding style and literal as the encodingStyle

The following example shows a portion of the WSDL file for the TemperatureService web service:

<binding name="TemperatureBinding" type="tns:TemperaturePortType">
    <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
    <operation name="getTemp">
        <soap:operation soapAction=""/>
        <input>
            <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:xmethods-Temperature" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
        </input>
        <output>
            <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:xmethods-Temperature" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
        </output>
    </operation>
</binding>

The WSDL file for the TemperatureService web service is compatible with ColdFusion because it uses rpc as the binding style, and encoding as the encodingStyle.