History of WSDL
- The rise of WSDL 1.0 began in September 2001. It is jointly developed by Microsoft, Ariba, and IBM and consists of a combination of two service description languages and that is SDL which is from Microsoft (Service Description language) and Network application service specification language (NASSL) from IBM.
- Global Market approached the release of WSDL 1.0 in March 2001, WSDL 1.0 was formalized and released WSDL 1.1.
- In June 2003, WSDL acted as a working draft at W3C, by providing developers and managers with a user-friendly version.
- WSDL 1.2 turned into WSDL 2.0 with a predecessor of WSDL 1.1.
- In June 2007, W3C recommended WSDL 2.0.
WSDL Introduction
One of the interactive formats for describing web services is WSDL and the full form for WSDL is Web Services Description Language. It was started and developed by Microsoft and IBM in March 2001. it is XML based language format used to describe functionalities and operations involved in web services. it basically tells the client application what the web services do. The general structure of WSDL consists of Definition, target namespace, Datatypes, Messages, Port-type, Bindings, and services. Actually, it looks very complex to any user, but it contains all the important messages or information that any client application would require to use the web services, but the more important thing is WSDL description is required without the client feeling difficulty understanding and moving forward.