W3C

Web Service Description Language Part 0 (Primer)

Working Draft 27 May 2002

This version:
http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/2002/05/ws-wsdl-primer-20020527
Latest version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/wd-wsdl-primer/
Previous versions:
Editors:
Krishna Sankar, Cisco Systems Inc
Kevin Liu, SAP Inc
David Booth, W3C

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Abstract

This document introduces the Web Service Description Language specification.

Status of this Document

This is an editors' working draft and has no official standing whatsoever.

Discussion of this document takes place on the public ws-desc@w3.org mailing list http://lists.w3.org/Archive/Public/www-ws-desc per the email communication rules in the Web Service Description Working Group Charter.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 General Principles of D3 - Definition, Description & Discovery of services
3 WSDL in the different stages of a service build-out
4 WSDL Internals
5 WSDL Topics
    5.1 MEPs
    5.2 RPC Vs Document
    5.3 Encoding
    5.4 Security
    5.5 Binding
6 WSDL Integration
7 WSDL usage
8 Future
    8.1 Semantic web
9 Difference between WSDL 1.1 & 1.2

1 Introduction

Content goes here.

2 General Principles of D3 - Definition, Description & Discovery of services

What do each step mean, what are the steps, the information requirement for each phase, abstract model et al.

3 WSDL in the different stages of a service build-out

The stages are Design Configuration and run time. The interaction would include the server side and the client side. I have ideas on two or three diagrams explaining this as well

4 WSDL Internals

The details of WSDL - the different sections, what they mean, how can we make them flexible et al. Import Vs include, which is static, which is dynamic, ...

5 WSDL Topics

The various topics that has come up in the mailing list and elsewhere

5.1 MEPs

How to do the various interactions - req/no resp, req-resp, pub-sub,...

5.2 RPC Vs Document

Requires no introduction :o)

5.3 Encoding

Requires no introduction either :o)

5.4 Security

Requires lots of introduction :o)

5.5 Binding

How binding works, what are the bindings articulated in the specs et al

6 WSDL Integration

Integration with other parts of web services - SOAP, UDDI, ...

7 WSDL usage

WSDL usage on all the scenarios identified in the usage scenario document

8 Future

Other future issues not yet solved

8.1 Semantic web

SOme thoughts on how the sw plays with WSDL

9 Difference between WSDL 1.1 & 1.2

The information required to understand and migrate from 1.1 to 1.2