WSDL

The WSDL (Web services Description Language) file describes the services offered by a server. It contains:

  • The description of the operations offered by the server, and each operation's input and output messages.

  • The location of the SOAP server.

  • Internal connection and protocol details (transport layer, encoding, namespaces, and so on).

A WSDL description is sufficient to provide all the information required to communicate with the SOAP server.

Genero Web Services package provides a tool, fglwsdl, that enables Genero client applications to obtain the WSDL description of a Web Service.