(Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. WSDL descriptions can be housed in a UDDI directory, and the combination of WSDL and UDDI is expected to promote the use of Web services worldwide. See WSFL and Web services.
 | Reproduced with permission from Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Copyright (c) 1981-2008 The Computer Language Company Inc. All rights reserved. |
Additional Resources
- You have SOA answers; we have questions
- You have SOA answers; we have questionsNo questions about services!WSDL, SOAP, REST, all the buzzwords were there. But not one hint of a question about services themselves.And who cares where SOAP originated? "Gee, you know who created SOAP so you'll be a good architect." Sheesh. :-)Ironic quiz...What's kinda funny is...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup camps
- Tension emerges between SOA and mashup campsUI components are not normally considered services"...they can actually create services on their own."UI components, including composite applications or mashups, are not typically "services." They may be service clients but typically services do *not* provide a user interface.The SOA/Mashup Tension is GOODJackBe agrees that...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
- Bricksoft IM Web Services (zip)
- IM Web Services enable to quickly integrate MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM feature into any applications across multiple platforms, systems and even across businesses. IM Web Services is standards with SOAP and WSDL will enable system-to-system communication that is easier and cheaper than ever SDK before. Features (MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM) Send and receive instant messagesUnicode supported...
- Software downloads 2008-05-21
- SOAPSimulator (exe)
- Enables parallel client and service development by providing SOA "Reference System in-a-box". Point and click WSDL parsing and SOAP simulation. Dynamic network WSDL retrieval. Custom XML transaction simulation. Best practices governance scoring. WSDL and schema rule analysis report card.
- Software downloads 2008-04-08
- Soap Generate Gear (exe)
- Using Soap Generate Gear, easily and automatically generate soap protocol source code for client/server sides from wsdl file. RPC and Document style are all supported. What you need to do is just import your wsdl file and click generate button. Pure platform independent c source code to make sure highly...
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- WSO2 launches Web Services Framework for Spring 1.0
- "Contract first" or "code first?" Spring developers now have a choice with WSO2's release of Web Services Framework WSF for Spring 1.0. The new WSF/Spring 1.0 integrates the Apache Axis2 /Java Web services engine into the Spring Framework, giving Spring users full control from within the Spring configuration model. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- How to tap into the largest SOA in the world
- How to tap into the largest SOA in the worldSOA vs. WOAPer Dion Hinchcliffe, of ZD Net.."Essentially, WOA describes a core set of Web protocols like HTTP and plain XML as the most dynamic, scalable, and interoperable Web service approach".And they are..Since these are the core of Web services, why...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- How to tap into the largest SOA in the world
- Despite mega-investments in a variety of integration technologies and strategies including SOA, businesses have seen very little return for their efforts. That's the view of ZDNet blogging colleague Dion Hinchcliffe, not to mention plenty of other industry observers. However, unlike the naysayers, Dion says all is not...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Curl ships commercial version of its open source web services dev kit for RIA Platform
- Development tools vendor Curl -- which is going up against Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flex and OpenLazlo in the Rich Internet Applications arena -- announced the commercial release of its open source web services development kit WSDK on Tuesday. The WSDK is one of three open source projects...
- Blog posts 2008-03-04
- IT Manager Webcast: Taking Control of Your Services With Service Virtualization (Level 200)
- Organizations are starting to reach the limits of their initial Service Oriented Architecture SOA efforts because of an inability to control, maintain, and trust their services for mission-critical applications. Service virtualization enables to overcome some of the limitations of service implementations by managing endpoints, operations, and policies, instead of Web...
- Webcasts 2008-02-07
- WSO2 targets 'Social Enterprise' with combined JavaScript/Web services Mashup Server
- WSO2, an open-source SOA provider, has combined JavaScript programming and Web services with the launch of its Mashup Server 1.0. This open-source offering, which can be downloaded without subscription fees, will allow enterprises to consume, aggregate, and publish information in a variety of forms and...
- Blog posts 2008-01-28
- Using JAX-WS With Maven
- Java API for XML-Based Web Services, JAX-WS, is a fundamental technology for developing SOAP-based and RESTful Java Web services, and is a key part of project Metro, the web services technology stack in GlassFish. In addition to providing a high performance runtime, JAX-WS offers the wsimport and wsgen tools for...
- White papers 2008-01-18
- oXygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger (exe)
- Oxygen offers you a multi-platform XML Editor, XSLT/XQuery Debugger and Profiler with full Unicode support. It offers a powerful code insight that can follow a DTD, Relax NG or an XML Schema or even can learn the structure from a partial edited document. XML and XSL documents can be easily...
- Software downloads 2007-12-27
- Is social media accelerating a move from SOAP to REST?
- Is social media accelerating a move from SOAP to REST?Farewell to static interfaces at last?Leymann's final comment pretty much sums up why REST will win out over SOA, as SOA is fundamentally about generic interfaces. For a SOA to be truly flexible and useful within an enterprise, keeping the interfaces...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-01
- Is social media accelerating a move from SOAP to REST?
- Is REST eclipsing SOAP Web services as the standard of choice, as we move toward service-orienting our enterprises? Is the Web 2.0 social media accelerating this trend? What does this all mean for enterprise SOA? 'Thousands of Web applications are being built on RESTful Web services, versus...
- Blog posts 2007-12-01
- MA3D (zip)
- Ma3D is .NET application designed to allow the MP3 collector to download and view album cover art. Album art can then be automatically viewed in most popular MP3 player programs such as Winamp using a plugin and Microsoft Media Player 9. It makes use of the latest in Web technologies,...
- Software downloads 2007-10-18
- ASP Store Locator Sample for MapPoint Web Service (exe)
- Learn how to install and run a store locator application created with Active Server Pages ASP that uses Microsoft MapPoint Web Service. The ASP Store Locator consists of ASP files, which provide the user interface, and Microsoft Visual Basic class files, which are compiled into a DLL (using Visual Basic...
- Software downloads 2007-10-03
- Adobe pushes foward on enabling RIA ecosystem with Flex 3, Adobe AIR betas
- The world of rich Internet applications RIA got a little richer on Monday when Adobe Systems released the beta versions of Flex 3 and the Flex SDK with enhanced features for developers. The beta versions are in place of the alpha release, which was...
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- To understand SOA, map it without technology
- There's been no shortage of confusion around the true meaning of SOA, and plenty of contention around what constitutes "true" SOA versus what people think is SOA. Do legacy apps exposed as services constitute SOA? Do Enterprise Service Buses constitute SOA? Does having a registry and repository constitute SOA? What...
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Groove 2007 Software Development Kit (exe)
- Groove 2007 Software Development Kit contains the Microsoft Office Groove 2007 Software Development Kit. The Groove 2007 SDK contains documentation, WSDL, and sample code for applications that use Groove Web Services. In addition, the SDK contains developer documentation for the Groove 2007 Forms and Groove 2007 InfoPath Forms tools. This...
- Software downloads 2007-09-20
Premier Vendor Content Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
- Access the latest Intel and industry best practices
-
Designed specifically to address the concerns of senior IT managers at organizations with more than 100 employees, the Intel Premier IT Professional Program provides best practices via local and e-Seminars and a members-only Web site.
- View the Intel Premier IT Professional web-site tour >>
- BNET Industries
- Check out BNET's newest resource for managers and executives. Need to do research on your competitors? Don't have time to read every trade pub? BNET Industries is the new source for daily news, insights, and research on 11 major industries and 9,000 public companies.
-
- The technology industry from a different angle
-
- See what's hot in the auto industry
-
- Stay on top of the energy industry
