An XML-based contract language for describing network services offered by a server. See also: Extensible Markup Language (XML).
An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. [go to site
WSDL forms the basis of Web Services and is used to define Web Services. A service provider describes its service using WSDL and publishes the definition to a services directory, which could use Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI). A service consumer uses WSDL to obtain the information required to send a request for the service. WSDL uses XML to define messages.
A standard language for defining a Web service description. It uses XML and XSD to describe the port type and its operations, the message formats, and the protocol bindings.
Web services description language is a specification that is published to a UDDI directory. WSDL provides interface/implementation details of available Web services and UDDI Registrants. It leverages XML to describe data types, details, interface, location and protocols.
WSDL provides a model and an XML format for describing Web services. WSDL enables one to separate the description of the abstract functionality offered by a service from concrete details of a service description such as "how" and "where" that functionality is offered.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML protocol for describing Web Services that are implemented using SOAP, and made accessible from UDDI Directory. These Web Services are published to a web server for remote invocation via the Intranet or Internet, using XML messaging based on SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.
An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either message-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services).
A general purpose XML language for describing the interface, protocol bindings, and deployment details of Web services.
A formal XML vocabulary and grammar that lets enterprises describe, discover and use Web services.
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dull' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services. Version 1.1 has not been endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Version 2.0, for which several drafts have been released, is expected to become a W3 C recommendation.
