The WSDL editor allows you to easily and graphically create, modify,
view, and validate WSDL files.
Using the WSDL editor, you can do the following:
- Create new WSDL files
- Validate and edit WSDL files
- Create and delete:
- services, which are used to aggregate a set of related ports. These are
the root elements of all WSDL files.
- ports, which specify an address for a binding, thus defining a single
communication endpoint.
- bindings, which specify concrete protocol and data format specifications
for the operations and messages defined by a particular port type.
- port types, which are a set of abstract operations. Each operation refers
to an input message and output messages.
- operations, which refer to input and output messages
- messages, which represent an abstract definition of the data being transmitted.
A message consists of logical parts, each of which is associated with a definition
within some type system.
- parts, which are a flexible mechanism for describing the logical abstract
content of a message
- types, which describe all the data types used between the client and server.
WSDL is not tied exclusively to a specific typing system, but it uses the
W3C XML Schema specification as its default choice.
- import statements, which are used to associate a namespace with a document
location
- Import existing WSDL files for structured viewing
- Generate documentation from a WSDL document.
The WSDL support in the WSDL editor is based on the W3C Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1. The WSDL specification from the W3C Web site is
also used for validation.