If you are a provider or a consumer about to enter development on a web service, you should have an understanding with your counterpart of the WSDL that defines the service. It should be very well ‘baked’ and changes once development begins should be minimial.

Major things like name spaces and object names should rarely change once development begins. Name spaces and object names are treated as a key by mapping tools. If either of them change, expect to waste time refactoring your development artifacts to use the new definitions.

Your WSDL file is a contract. A contract that describes what data I can expect from an invocation. How can you expect to perform a development exercise without a strongly defined contract?

Also, the runtime that you are going to use to implement your service is irrelevant. I received three WSDLS that were completely different because the developer was switching between runtimes and I assume just autogenerating the WSDL from the tooling.

Good anti-pattern and a solid reason why these kinds of projects miss deadlines.