Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML based language that is used to describe and locate web services.

WSDL

     

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML based language that is used to describe and locate web services. WSDL is an XML document. The current version of the WSDL specification is 2.0. A WSDL document uses elements like portType, message, types, binding.

The structure of a WSDL document looks like:

<definitions>    <types> definition of types........ </types>    <message> definition of a message.... </message>    <portType> definition of a port....... </portType>    <binding> definition of a binding.... </binding> </definitions>

 

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