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There is no standard convention for
retrieving WSDL files, although many implementations do support an HTTP GET on
the service URL with “?wsdl”
appended. BEA, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP have proposed a standard protocol and
interface for retrieving all metadata associated with a service called WS-MetadataExchange (WS-MDX). See ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/WS-MetadataExchange.pdf.
Using this protocol, an application can retrieve XML Schema, WSDL, and
WS-Policy metadata. Anne From: Tony Opatha
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This was discussed in the W3C architecture group, but I thought it was
interesting to follow-up here as well. I think it would be useful to be compatible with .NET 1.1 in terms of
retrieving and requesting WSDL using the URL of the web service. Eventually, this type of WSDL requesting and retrieving behaviour will
need to finds it way into some WS-I test and/or other SOAP/WSDL interop tests,
but I think if we can fit this into AXIS 1.2 final release it would be
great. Thoughts? >One
really nice feature of the Microsoft .Net implementation of Web services is
that if >you append "?WSDL" (or "?wsdl") to the URL of
the Web service it will return the >WSDL file. As far as I know this
is not in any spec (I could easily be wrong, of course), >but it's clearly
useful and I'm using it. So the obvious questions are: >1
- Is this indeed part of some spec that I don't know about, so one should
expect it on >other platforms? >2
- If not, have other major vendors been doing this too? Is it by any
stretch becoming a >de facto standard? >3
- If so, is there any case preference on platforms that tend to be more case
sensitive >than Windows? __________________________________________________ |
- RE: Requesting WSDL Files Anne Thomas Manes
- RE: Requesting WSDL Files Anne Thomas Manes
