WS-MetadataExchange Facts

This document provides facts related to WS-MetadataExchange for usage in the written part of my diploma thesis.

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General

  • we refer to information about the service as metadata

What is WS-MetadataExchange?

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Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services [FS03]
  • WS-MetadataExchange specification enables a service to provide metadata to others through a Web services interface. Given only a reference to a Web service, a potential user can access a set of WSDL/SOAP operations to retrieve the metadata (WSDL, WS-Policy, XSD) that describes the service. Clients can use WS-MetadataExchange at design time, when building their clients, or at runtime.