16.4. Web Services Description Language (WDSL)

Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language used to define Web service interfaces. An application that consumes a Web service parses the service’s WSDL document to discover the location of the service, the operations that the service supports, the protocol bindings the service supports (SOAP, HTTP, etc), and how to access them. For each operation, WSDL describes the format that the client must follow.