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Appendix C. Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

IN THIS APPENDIX

• History of WSDL

• WSDL in Workshop

• Obtaining the WSDL Definition for Any Service in Workshop

• Utilizing an External Web Service When You Have Its WSDL URL

• Creating a Service That Complies with a WSDL File

• WSDL Definition

• Communication Processes

• Types

• Messages

• Operations

• Port Type

• Binding

• Port

• Service

The Web Service Description Language provides a way to define the operations and data that travel into and out of your services. The WSDL definition is designed specifically to provide interoperability between various languages and implementations.

History of WSDL

WSDL was originally designed by IBM, Microsoft, and Ariba to provide a standard mechanism for describing Web services. The proposed language ...