The Description: WSDL
You already know that the Web Services Description Language is an XML-based language that is used to define Web services and describe how to access them. Fortunately, you do not need to learn all the details because tools or implementations such as the Web Services Toolkit from Sybase, or Axis (another Web Service implementation) generates WSDL for you. This chapter gives you just enough WSDL knowledge to understand what's going on and to enable you to tweak tool-generated WSDL files and maybe troubleshoot WSDL-related problems.
Interoperability between applications on various operating system platforms and programming languages is most often hindered because one system's “integer” might not be exactly the same as another ...
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