WSDL Generation Tool Help
The WSDL Generation Tool will help you in creating the necessary files to deploy a Web Service for Apache SOAP.
At the end of the process you should have the following files:
- WSDL definition file.
- This file decribes your service. In includes: The service URN to identify the service. The methods which can be invoked on the service.
The parameters of the service and their types. Definitions for complex types. Encoding types used to represent data on the transport. And finally
the transport the service is defined for.
- WSDL implemetation file.
- This file imports the the WSDL definition file and defines a specific location for the service.
- Apache SOAP Deployment Descriptor.
- This file is used to define and deploy your service to the Apache SOAP Server. It does the following: It maps a service URN to either a Java class, or
a SOAP Pluggable provider to execute the service's method. It lists which methods may be invoked. It also has mappings for the beans used to serialize and
de-serialize complex types.
- Serializers for complex types.
- These are Java class files that Apache client and server use to serialize and deserialize complex types.
To begin defining your Web Service select one of the buttons for the type of existing service implementation you have then press next.