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Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML format for describing network services, including operations and messages. A WSDL document defines endpoints, operations, message formats and protocol bindings. It provides an abstract description of services that can be bound to concrete protocols.

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Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML format for describing network services, including operations and messages. A WSDL document defines endpoints, operations, message formats and protocol bindings. It provides an abstract description of services that can be bound to concrete protocols.

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Web Services Description

Language (WSDL)

Jason Glenn
CDA 5937
Process Coordination in Service
and Computational Grids
September 30, 2002
Outline
 What is a web service?
 Web Services Model
 Web Services Stack
 Lower level WS protocols
 What is WSDL?
 Explain contents of WSDL documents
 Higher level WS and WS-related applications
What is a Web Service?
 Self-contained, modular web application
that can be published, located, and
invoked across the Web.
 Can perform functions of varying
complexities
 Once deployed, other applications (and
other Web services) can discover and
invoke the deployed service.
Web Services Model

Port

Backend
App WS Request
Server
Client
(Web Service)
WS Response
Web Services Stack
Implementation Layer
UDDI Publishing and Discovery
WSXL/.NET Web Applications
IBM WSFL/MS XLANG Workflow
WSDL/WSCL Service Descriptions
SOAP/ XML/ HTTP/SMTP Transactions/Reliability/
Messaging
Internet/ Intranet Transport Network
Common Transfer Protocols
 HTTP
 SMTP
HTTP
 HTTP=HyperText Transfer Protocol
 Protocol commonly used to transfer
information on the web
SMTP
 SMTP = Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
 Protocol used to exchange information
between mail servers
MIME
 MIME = Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions
 Internet standard that specifies how
messages are formatted for exchange
between different email systems
 flexible format
Review of XML
 XML = EXtensible Markup Language
 A markup language like HTML
(HyperText Markup Language)
 Designed to describe data
 Tags are not predefined
 Uses a Document Type Definition (DTD)
or an XML Schema to describe the data
 Designed to be self-descriptive
XML vs. HTML
 XML is about describing information
 HTML is about displaying information
XML Example

<note>
<to>Gerald</to>
<from>Ron</from>
<heading>Reminder</heading>
<body>Don't forget the meeting on Friday.</body>
</note>
HTML Example

<b>This is a note</b><br>
<font face=“arial” size=-1>To: Gerald</font><br>
< font face=“Terminal”>From: Ron</font><br>
<b>Heading: Reminder</b><br><br>
<center>Don't forget the meeting on Friday.</center>
XML Documents
 Not quite the same as HTML documents
 Can be seen independently of files (one
document can contain many files; one
file can contain many documents)
 Concerned more with logical structure
than physical structure
XML Namespaces
 An XML namespace is a collection of
names, which are used in XML
documents as element types and
attribute names
 WSDL document elements belong to
WSDL namespace
SOAP (Simple Object Access
Protocol )
 a lightweight and simple XML-based protocol
that is designed to exchange structured and
typed information on the Web
 Standard way of representing remote
procedure calls and responses
 Standard to encapsulate messages between
Web service clients and servers
 SOAP Envelope
SOAP
SOAP Envelopes
Soap
Envelope/HTTP
Port

Backend WS Request
App
Server
Client
(Web Service)
WS Response

Soap
Envelope/HTTP
What is WSDL?
 Web Services Description Language
 An XML format for describing network
services as a set of endpoints operating
on messages.
Characteristics of WSDL
 Operations and messages are described
abstractly
 Endpoints defined by binding concrete
network protocol and message format
to abstract operations and messages
 Can describe any endpoint regardless of
the underlying network protocol or
message format
WSDL Document Elements
 Types – a container for data type definitions using some type
system
 Message – an abstract, typed definition of the data being
communicated
 Operation – an abstract description of an action supported by
the service
 Port Type – an abstract set of operations supported by one or
more endpoints
 Binding – a concrete protocol and data format specification for
a particular port type
 Port – a single endpoint defined as a combination of a binding
and a network address
 Service – a collection of related endpoints
Example

The following example is taken from the


WSDL description document provided
by the world wide web consortium.
This document can be found at
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_wsdl. It
is the WSDL definition for a simple
service providing stock quotes.
Example

Microsoft Word
Document
Expanding on WSDL
 WSXL
 IBM web services component model
 based on open standards
 .NET
 Microsoft web services component model
 UDDI
 Web Service Registry
WSXL
 Goals
 enable businesses to deliver interactive
Web applications through multiple
distribution channels
 enable new services or applications to be
created by leveraging other interactive
applications across the Web
.NET
 Goal
 Applications constructed from multiple Web
services that work together to provide data
and services for the application
UDDI
 Universal Description, Discovery and
Integration
 Platform-independent, open framework
for describing and discovering web
services using the Internet
 UDDI Registries
Popular Web Services Servers
 IBM Websphere
 Not Open Source
 Trial Versions Available
 Apache Axis
 Open Source
 Free
Useful Links
 WSDL description/specification
 http://www.w3c.org/TR/wsdl
 Apache Axis
 http://xml.apache.org/axis/
 IBM Websphere
 www.ibm.com/software/info1/websphere

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