Web Services Description Language

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XML — Web Services Description Language

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Web Services Description Language provides a means based on XML by which the capabilities of a web server can be described. Web Services Description Language describes web services in terms of a set of end points that accept requests and issue responses. A Web Services Description Language document specifies the server providing the services, the binding of the services provided to the services and the message formats used for requests and responses.
     Web Services Description Language is used in UDDI (WHAT IS THIS??), and in conjunction with SOAP, HTTP and MIME.

Other topics in our resources on XML related to Web Services Description Language include: 

UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) Web Services Description Language Definitions

Web Services Description Language Documentation Web Services Description Language Types Web Services Description Language Messages Web Services Description Language Operations

Web Services Description Language PortTypes Web Services Description Language Bindings Web Services Description Language Ports Web Services Description Language Services

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