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WSDL, aka Web Services Description Language, is a xml format created in 2000.

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The Web Services Description Language (WSDL ) is an XML-based interface definition language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. The acronym is also used for any specific WSDL description of a web service (also referred to as a WSDL file), which provides a machine-readable description of how the service can be called, what parameters it expects, and what data structures it returns. Therefore, its purpose is roughly similar to that of a method signature in a programming language. Read more on Wikipedia...


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <description xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl" xmlns:tns="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample" xmlns:whttp="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:wsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" targetNamespace="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample"> <documentation> This is a sample WSDL 2.0 document. </documentation> <!-- Abstract type --> <types> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://www.tmsws.com/wsdl20sample" targetNamespace="http://www.example.com/wsdl20sample"> <xs:element name="request"> ... </xs:element> <xs:element name="response"> ... </xs:element> </xs:schema> </types> <!-- Abstract interfaces --> <interface name="Interface1"> <fault name="Error1" element="tns:response"/> <operation name="Get" pattern="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl/in-out"> <input messageLabel="In" element="tns:request"/> <output messageLabel="Out" element="tns:response"/> </operation> </interface> <!-- Concrete Binding Over HTTP --> <binding name="HttpBinding" interface="tns:Interface1" type="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl/http"> <operation ref="tns:Get" whttp:method="GET"/> </binding> <!-- Concrete Binding with SOAP--> <binding name="SoapBinding" interface="tns:Interface1" type="http://www.w3.org/ns/wsdl/soap" wsoap:protocol="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/bindings/HTTP/" wsoap:mepDefault="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap/mep/request-response"> <operation ref="tns:Get" /> </binding> <!-- Web Service offering endpoints for both bindings--> <service name="Service1" interface="tns:Interface1"> <endpoint name="HttpEndpoint" binding="tns:HttpBinding" address="http://www.example.com/rest/"/> <endpoint name="SoapEndpoint" binding="tns:SoapBinding" address="http://www.example.com/soap/"/> </service> </description>

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