WSDL Documents

Each service is represented by a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document.

WSDL is an XML format that describes the public interface of a Web service in terms of a set of endpoints. A WSDL document is generated for each service when it is defined. For complete information on the WSDL format, see the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) page at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl.

Any user with access to a published Web service via a UDDI registry can develop an imported service that replicates all methods of the published service by reusing its WSDL document.

The database and messaging services you create can also be changed to add more port operations, but you cannot change WSDL documents that you discover, such as a WSDL document associated with Web services. Changing the WSDL breaks the link to the original process, meaning the original functionality is made unavailable. The structure of a WSDL is important because the consistency allows integration of differing applications within and across organizations and platforms.

WSDL documents have the following structure:


Restrictions for externally sourced WSDL files
Related concepts
Web Services
Related tasks
Dragging and Dropping a WSDL into a Project
Searching a UDDI Registry

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