Many developers consider Web Services Description Language (WSDL) the new software design view. WSDL offers a verbose, ASCII, standard, and language-agnostic view of services offered to clients. WSDL ...

Web Services play a key role in implementing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The notion of describing the service independent of the technology in which it has been implemented has been robustly ...

Last week, the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) finalized Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) as a W3C recommendation. The action aims to promote greater interoperability and ...

Web services relies on software standards. Here is a brief description of what each of the four major Web services standards does. SOAP (simple object access protocol) Describes how one application ...

The Web Service Description Language (WSDL) provides an XML grammar for defining and advertising a Web service, including a service's type. This article gives an overview of how to describe a Web ...

The Web's leading technology oversight group on Thursday moved one step closer to management of a key Web services standard. In hopes of preventing a standards battle, Oracle this week proposed that ...