This section contains a WSDL service advertisement example.

Before moving on to more complicated WSDL examples, let's examine another relatively simple one. Example 6-3 provides a WSDL file for the XMethods eBay Price Watcher Service. The service takes an existing eBay auction ID, and returns the value of the current bid.

This section contains a simple WSDL example.

WSDL is an XML format for describing web services. Constructing PHP clients from WSDL is no problem but as WSDL is uses XML schema (which is effectively strongly typed), the relationship between PHP and WSDL on the server side is not so fine. Rather than generating WSDL from a PHP server, this is an experiment in generating PHP from WSDL, with help from a little XSLT.

The client in the section, A Simple Example: HelloWorld, used a static stub for the proxy. In contrast, the client example in this section calls a remote procedure through a dynamic proxy, a class that is created during runtime. Before creating the proxy class, the client gets information about the service by looking up its WSDL document.

This section shows how to create and run these types of clients: Static stub,Dynamic proxy, Dynamic invocation interface (DII).

This page provides links to various services in the wild. Note that these are examples, and may or may not be available at any given time.

This example shows you how to use JAX-RPC to create a Web service named HelloWorld. A remote client of the HelloWorld service can invoke the sayHello method, which accepts a string parameter and then returns a string.

This is the interface part of the service definition file.

This is service definition file. Note that there are three complexType XSM definition which will result in three auxiliary classes defined by wsdl2java.

This section shows an example of how to PocketSOAP to call the XSpace service using Visual Basic.

This is an example to create documentation for Web Service.

An example about WSDL.

WSDL example (binding)

WSDL example (message)

WSDL example (port)

The following is an example of how to use Insuma search engine Web Service remotedly from your Windows computer, using the MS .NET platform.

This section shows an example of how to use the .NET framework to call the XSpace service using C#.

Using Visual Studio .NET, I created this C# Web Service.

In our example, we will create a WSDL file from scratch.