Can a .NET web application consume Java web service?
Yes Offcourse.Actually Webservices are independent to language. It depends on WSDL and SOAP. so any one can develope the Webservices anddisclose the wsdl and users can consume the webservices.wsdl and soap both are xml based.. and all languages having xml parsing capability and access to http protocol will be able to work with Webservices.