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Defining Web Services with WSDL: A Primer

WSDL is a standard XML format for describing XML Web services, proposed by a group of vendors including Ariba, Intel, IBM, and Microsoft. It defines the set of operations and messages that can be sent to and received from a given Web service in an abstract, language-neutral manner.

Web Services Description Language (WSDL)

WSDL is "an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information.

WSDL Explained

IUsing WSDL, users can automate the generation of proxies for Web services in a truly language- and platform-independent way. (28 printed pages)

Using WSDL in SOAP Applications

Web Services Description Language (WDSL) is a new specification to describe networked XML-based services. It provides a simple way for service providers to describe the basic format of requests to their systems regardless of the underlying protocol (such as Simple Object Access Protocol or XML) or encoding (such as Multipurpose Internet Messaging Extensions).

Understanding WSDL in a UDDI Registry
The Web Services Description Language has a lot of versatility in its methods of use. In particular, WSDL can work with UDDI registries in several different ways depending upon the application needs. In this first of a three-part series, we will look at these different methods of using WSDL with UDDI registries.