Thursday 19 January 2017

What is WSDL?

WSDL stands for Web Service Description Language. It is an XML file that describes the technical details of how to implement a web service, more specifically the URI, port, method names, arguments, and data types. Since WSDL is XML, it is both human-readable and machine-consumable, which aids in the ability to call and bind to services dynamically. Using this WSDL file we can understand things like
  •     Port / Endpoint – URL of the web service
  •     Input message format
  •     Output message format
  •     Security protocol that needs to be followed
  •     Which protocol the web service uses
WSDL describes web services in an xml format so that different technologies can understand

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