Short for Web Services Description Language, an XML-formatted language used to describe a Web service's capabilities as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages. WSDL is an integral part of UDDI, an XML-based worldwide business registry. WSDL is the language that UDDI uses. WSDL was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM.

by Johan Peeters August 05, 2003 Defining Data This article is the third and final part of the WSDL Tales from the Trenches series, and in it I concentrate on the data in web services. More specifically, I examine the type definitions and element declarations in the types element of a WSDL document. Such types and elements are for use in the abstract...   Read Article.

by Rael Dornfest , Clay Shirky May 01, 2002 Emerging Technology Briefs, developed by O'Reilly Research , offer a single-page summary of recent developments in a technology topic that we have been following. O'Reilly Research also publishes full-length industry reports, including quot;Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunitiesquot;...   Read Article.