Chapter 5. Web Service Description and Discovery
IN THIS CHAPTER
Two significant technologies have emerged in the Web Service arena, each with a specific purpose but benefiting one another.
First and foremost is the Web Service Description Language (WSDL), an XML language that is used to describe the logical message structure, syntax, and network properties of a Web Service. Just as distributed objects or remote methods are described with IDL, you need a mechanism for describing services in such a way that clients can easily (and programmatically) determine the service's message format, available network endpoints, and supported transport protocols. This is exactly ...
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