Help with CORBA Any

[sa...@bt.com]

All,

I know the subject is vague, but what I wanted to know is equivalent of
CORBA Any data type in the WSDL world.

I know people may say that look at specifications on W3C site, but I was
looking for quick pointers, if people have already done it.

What I wanted to achieve is essentially what we have already done in CORBA
World. i.e. The Client passes hard typed Data Structures like integer,
float, String etc in an CORBA Any Structure and the server side code
discovers what type is passed by the client and then responds. This is what
we(people in our project) call as Hard interface  from Client end and Soft
interface on server.

Is there anything equivalent of this in WSDL?

Please help.

Regards and TIA,

Santosh