WSDL

[Former Member]

what is the role of WSDL in XI ?

[Former Member]

Hi Praveen,

A common way of data exchange in integration environments are Web Services. Web

Services provide message exchange between applications based on open standards

and protocols. They are used as a platform and program language independent data

communication over computer networks in a manner similar to inter-process

communication on a single computer.

WSDl is one of the existing standards of webservices

SAP XI offers a tight integration of Web Services into the engine and

development tools. Using the SAP XI SOAP Adapter enables the consumption and

publication of Web Services based on the SOAP 1.1 protocol.

Regards,

Madhusree

[former_member183908]

Hi

--> Message Interfaces are the highest level representation of XML metadata.

-->Starting point for Proxy generation.(ABAP or JAVA)

-->It has two attributes one is mode and Direction.

-->mode for synchronous and asynchronous

--Direction : outbound and inbound.

Thanks

[Former Member]

WSDL is an XML format for describing services.

so using wsdl u can expose ur Message Interfaces as webservices.Any one who wants to consume the webservicew need to have the wsdl.WSDL will describe the service , what it accept , type of parameter it accept and what it return ,type of parameter it returns and location of service.

WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language.

WSDL is a document written in XML. The document describes a Web service. It specifies the location of the service and the operations (or methods) the service exposes.

[Former Member]

Hi,

WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language.........WSDL describes a web-service - its msg strucutue, the method to be invoked, the mechanism by which the method is to be invoked........

when you have to send a SOAP req msg from XI to a target webservice, then you will get the WSDL of the web-service exposed by target application which you will import into XI as an external defintion and then use it in a msg interface in your scenario..........

Regards,

Rajeev Gupta

[former_member732072]

Hi Praveen,

Please have a look at the following link and see if it helps

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/74bae690-0201-0010-71a5-9da49f4a...

Best Regards

[rajasekhar_reddy14]

WSDL is web service definiton laguage, every message convert in to WSDL format,

WSDL holds the message content, search in google about WSDL.

in BPM Scenarios messages exchange in BPEL format , no BPM means it uses WSDL.