September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
15h 36m
English
In this chapter, you'll learn the basics of creating a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file by hand. Our goal in this chapter is to provide you with some best practices and quickly get you up to speed with the language. If you're already comfortable with WSDL, you can safely skip this chapter. If you're a WSDL/XML Schema purist, then reading this chapter will only upset you, because we won't take the time to cover the esoteric capabilities of the language here.
WSDL is a nontrivial language. To express the depth and breadth of the language fully is beyond the scope of this book. In this chapter, we'll focus on a WSDL format that's most amenable to creating highly interoperable web services: document-centric ...