Questions about schemas.microsoft.com.2003.10.Serialization.xsd generated by svcutil.exe

Question

I want to distribute the WSDL file of my WCF service to all the stakeholders. Some will be generating actual web service out of it and a few will be writing client part of it.

When i generated wsdl, i found that schemas.microsoft.com.2003.10.Serialization.xsd is also generated. My questions are:

1. Is this file/schema necessary in distribution package? (I think, yes.)
2. Is it compliant with the standards?
3. Will there be any interoperability issue? Some stakeholders are on Java and Delphi platforms.
4. Why the similar schema definition is not generated for the ASMX services?

Answer 1

My questions are:

1) Is this file/schema necessary in distribution package? (I think, yes.)
2) Is it compliant with the standards?
3) Will there be any interoperability issue? Some stakeholders are on Java and Delphi platforms.
4) Why the similar schema definition is not generated for the ASMX services?

My answers are:

1) Yes, it's necessary - typically, WCF doesn't generate stuff that's not necessary....
2) Yes, it's 100% compliant with all WS-* and XML Schema standards.
3) Only if the other side of the equation doesn't conform to the documented standards....
4) That's something only the designers at Microsoft can answer ..... I don't know - and frankly I don't care since ASMX is legacy technology