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The Web Services Description Language is an XML format specified by the World Wide Web Consortium for describing Web services. The supported operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format.

It is commonly abbreviated as WSDL in technical literature.

See also

Web Service
SOAP
UDDI

External Links

WSDL Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl)
XML protocol activity (http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/)

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