difference between xsd & wsdl

[Former Member]

Hi

could u please tell me difference between xsd & wsdl file

both are xml files.when we use xml file when we go for wsdl file.

Regards

rao

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Message types (XSD): defines the message structure, based on data types or standard XML types (like a defined variable of some type: int Counter = 0; String s = "aaa"; ...)

Message Interfaces (WSDL): defines the interface of a service that uses that message type to export/import data (like when you have a method that returns or consumes some parameters of determined types: int parseInt (String s) ).

[Former Member]

Hi Mahesh,

XML Schema Definition (XSD) is an XML-based language used to describe and control XML document contents.

Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) is a specification defining how to describe web services in a common XML grammar

Srikanth

[Former Member]

a WSDL defines how a web service behaves, while a XSD defines XML structures.

Regards

krishna

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

XSD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Schema

WSDL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language

Regards,

michal