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Chapter 3. WSDL primer
The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) was created shortly after SOAP
to describe Web services. WSDL describes:
The information carried in a Web service request
How the Web service is realized by a particular protocol, such as SOAP over
Http:
The location of the service
The structure of this information is illustrated in Figure 3-1 on page 28. The
discussion that follows is not a complete description of the specification, but is
sufficient to understand how WSDL and SOAP are related, and to be able to
interpret WSDL documents produced by WebSphere Studio Application ...