WSDL Facts

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

General

  • Web Services Description Language
  • WSDL and WS-Policy enable composition for the description of services [FS03]

What is WSDL?

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XML / SOAP Web Services Security [Mü02]
  • definiert die Web Services Interfaces, die Datentypen und das Zusammenspiel mit dem Übertragungprotokoll
  • XML-basierend
  • über WSDL erfährt ein SOAP-Client, wie eine Anfrage auszusehen hat
Secure, Reliable, Transacted Web Services [FS03]
  • WSDL allows a Web service to document the messages it receives and sends. In other words, what "actions" or "functions" the service performs in terms of the messages it receives and sends.
  • provides support for a range of message interaction patterns. It supports one-way input messages that have no response, request/response, and one way sends with or without a response. The last two patterns enable a service to specify other services that it needs.
  • Proposed WSDL enhancements provide support for documenting protocols and message formats a service supports, and the service's address.