Free Web Services - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.13, by Herong Yang
What Is WSDL Document
This section describes WSDL Documents, which are XML files that uses WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) to define Web services.
What Is WSDL Document? A WSDL (Web Services Definition Language) document is an XML file that uses WSDL language to define Web services.
WSDL language was developed by W3C. 2 major versions have been released so far.
- WSDL 1.1 - Released on 15 March 2001. Specification of WSDL 1.1 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.
- WSDL 2.0 - Released on 26 June 2007. Specification of WSDL 2.0 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-primer/.
At a high level, a WSDL document defines a set of Web services which are defined as below:
- A WSDL document can be defined as a set of Web services.
- A Web service can be defined as an interface and a set of end points.
- An end point can be defined as an address and a binding.
- An address can be defined to tell where the service is provided.
- A binding can be defined to tell how messages should be formatted and transmitted.
- An interface can be defined as a set of operations.
- An operation can be defined as a sequence of input and output messages.
Here is a diagram that illustrates how WSDL 2.0 can be used to define Web services in a WSDL document:
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Discontinued: GenerateBarCode - Generate Bar Code Images
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