August 2001
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 35m
English
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WSDL
WSDL is the
Web Services Description Language. The entire
specification is online at
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl, and describes
everything you need to know about a service in order to interact with
it. Like UDDI, it’s a fairly simple piece of technology on its
own (really, it’s not even technology; it’s just markup),
but becomes extremely important in the overall web services picture.
The WSDL file describes several critical pieces
of information a service client would need:
The name of the service, including its URN
The location the service can be accessed at (usually an HTTP URL address)
The methods available for invocation
The input and output parameter types for each method
Each of these pieces of data on their own are fairly useless, but
together, they represent the complete client picture of the service.
Additionally, a WSDL document incorporates elements of XML Schema,
XML-RPC-style parameters, and quite a bit of everything else
you’ve read about so far. Example 13-1 is a
portion of a WSDL schema for the CD catalog from the last chapter; it
only describes the getCD( ) method of the service.
It’s not complete, but it should give you an idea of what a
WSDL document looks like.
Example 13-1. Portion of a WSDL document
<?xml version="1.0"?> <definitions name="CDCatalog" targetNamespace="http://www.oreilly.com/javaxml2/cd-catalog.wsdl" xmlns:cd="http://www.oreilly.com/javaxml2/cd-catalog.wsdl" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:cdXSD="http://www.oreilly.com/javaxml2/cd-catalog.xsd" ...
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