WSDL-based Web Services
WorldServer system and custom Web services use Apache Axis Web services implementations, and are fully compliant with the the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The WorldServer WSDL is installed with WorldServer:
…/Webapps/ws-legacy/wsdl/WorldServerServices.wsdl
For more information on Apache Axis, see http://ws.apache.org/axis/.
The formal specification of WSDL can be found here: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/.
Two additional mechanisms of Web services invocation are also supported:
- Any WSDL-compliant platform can dynamically discover and invoke WorldServer services using the WorldServer WSDL.
- Web clients can be statically generated and built on WSDL-compliant platforms from the WorldServer WSDL, and then used to invoke the Web services at runtime.