Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is an XML based, human- and machine-readable language used to describe a web service. It describes the available web service methods, the message request and response structures, the possible faults, and the communication and security requirements. This tag does not refer to any tool named "wsdl", such as WSDL.EXE from Microsoft.
Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is an XML based, human- and machine-readable language used to describe a web service. It describes the available web service methods, the message request and response structures, the possible faults, and the communication and security requirements.
This tag does not refer to any tool named "wsdl", such as wsdl.exe.
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WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages regardless of what message formats or network protocols are used to communicate, however, the only bindings described in this document describe how to use WSDL in conjunction with SOAP 1.1, HTTP GET/POST, and MIME.
SOAP is a lightweight protocol for exchange of information in a decentralized, distributed environment. It is an XML based protocol that consists of three parts: an envelope that defines a framework for describing what is in a message and how to process it, a set of encoding rules for expressing instances of application-defined datatypes, and a convention for representing remote procedure calls and responses. SOAP can potentially be used in combination with a variety of other protocols; however, the only bindings defined in this document describe how to use SOAP in combination with HTTP and HTTP Extension Framework.
