The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dell', or 'wooz-dul', sometimes also 'wazoodel', and, albeit rarely, 'doubleyou-ess-dee-el') is an XML format published for describing Web services. Version 1.1 has not been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), however it has released several drafts for version 2.0, that will be a W3C recommendation, and thus endorsed by the W3C.
WSDL describes the public interface to the web service. This is an XML-based service description on how to communicate using the web service; namely, the protocol bindings and message formats required to interact with the web services listed in its directory. The supported operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format.
WSDL is often used in combination with SOAP and XML Schema to provide web services over the internet. A client program connecting to a web service can read the WSDL to determine what functions are available on the server. Any special datatypes used are embedded in the WSDL file in the form of XML Schema. The client can then use SOAP to actually call one of the functions listed in the WSDL.
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