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Web Services definition language (WSDL); Web Services description language (WSDL)
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One of the main building blocks of a Web Service environment is the language to describe available services. The documents written in this language allow to find and use services without any further knowledge about their implementation details, internal infrastructure, or operators.
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is a document format based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML). It is standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standardization body since 2001.
WSDL allows the platform-independent and machine-readable description of Web Services. It is comparable to other interface description languages such as the CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) (Object Management Group 2008). The common property of such languages is that they serve as a machine-readable contractual agreement between service consumers and the provider. The provider guarantees the...
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Tröger, P. (2014). WSDL. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_134
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