At the operations perspective, we can use tools to edit the WSDLs to reflect this change and then place all the WSDLs in a repository for the consumers to find or even supply these WSDLs to the consumers. The consumers can then use their conventional tools to generate client stubs and send SOAP requests to access the service. The version aspect is not revealed to the clients, instead they are limited to the WSDLs.

As we are using an ESB as the middleware messaging infrastructure, another option is that the WSDLs can be retrieved from their original source (for example, http://localhost:8080/AxisEndToEnd20061231/services/HelloWebService20061231?WSDL) on demand basis from the client. Moreover, do an XSL transform to replace the different endpoint addresses with a single covenant address and supply them.