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WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language used to describe web services and is a W3C recommendation. It consists of key elements such as <types>, <message>, <portType>, and <binding>, which define data types, operations, and protocols for web services. Clients utilize WSDL files to format SOAP requests for accessing web services.

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WSDL (Web Services Description Language) is an XML-based language used to describe web services and is a W3C recommendation. It consists of key elements such as <types>, <message>, <portType>, and <binding>, which define data types, operations, and protocols for web services. Clients utilize WSDL files to format SOAP requests for accessing web services.

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4.1 WSDL : (Web Services Description Language)

 Used to describe web services and written in XML.


 W3C recommendation.

WSDL Documents

 Document describes web service.

 Specifies location and method of service using major elements.

WSDL primarily consists of the following elements:

Element Description

<types> Defines XML Schema data types used by web service

<message Defines the data elements for each operation


>

<port Describes the operations that can be performed and the messages
type> involved.

<binding>
Defines the protocol and data format for each port type
When a client wants to make use of a Web service

 It first loads the WSDL file and uses the information contained in it to format a SOAP request.

 The WSDL and WSML are both generated by the wsdlgen utility.

The main structure of a WSDL document looks like this:

<definitions>

<types>
data type definitions........
</types>

<message>
definition of the data being communicated....
</message>

<portType>
set of operations......
</portType>

<binding>
protocol and data format specification....
</binding>

</definitions>

Example:

This is a simplified fraction of a WSDL document:

<message name="getTermRequest">
<part name="term" type="xs:string"/>
</message>

<message name="getTermResponse">
<part name="value" type="xs:string"/>
</message>

<portType name="glossaryTerms">
<operation name="getTerm">
<input message="getTermRequest"/>
<output message="getTermResponse"/>
</operation>
</portType>
Here the <portType> element defines "glossaryTerms" as the name of a port, and "getTerm" as the
name of an operation.

The "getTerm" operation has an input message called "getTermRequest" and an output
message called "getTermResponse".

The <message> elements define the parts of each message and the associated data types.

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