Which style of WSDL should I use. Which style of WSDL should I use? Introduction A WSDL document describes a web service. A WSDL binding describes how the service is bound to a messaging protocol, particularly the SOAP messaging protocol. A WSDL SOAP binding can be either a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) style binding or a document style binding.
A SOAP binding can also have an encoded use or a literal use. This gives you four style/use models: RPC/encodedRPC/literalDocument/encodedDocument/literal Add to this collection a pattern which is commonly called the document/literal wrapped pattern and you have five binding styles to choose from when creating a WSDL file. Before I go any further, let me clear up some confusion that many of us have stumbled over. Likewise, the terms encoded and literal are only meaningful for the WSDL-to-SOAP mapping, though, at least here, the traditional meanings of the words make a bit more sense. Listing 1. Public void myMethod(int x, float y); Back to top RPC/encoded Listing 2.
Listing 3. Strengths Weaknesses RPC/literal Listing 4. SOAP Binding: Difference between Document and RPC Style Web Services. Web services - What is the difference between Document style and RPC style communication? Building Document Literal Wrapped Web Services with Java. This project describes an approach to designing, building and testing a particular style of web service: the document literal wrapped style. Web services built using this approach provide the benefit of complete self-description, standards conformance, and robustness in the face of changing requirements. This work has been funded under the JISC e-Learning Program as the "Saving Private Data" project 1.2.
Web Services by Design This project describes an approach to designing, building and testing a SOAP style web service, using the document literal design pattern. This approach contrasts with the common practice of generating WSDL documents from web service code that has been written by hand: By reversing this common practice of generating WSDL from a hand written code base, and instead using XML documents as a foundational design document, we gain more control over the web service design. 1.3. The project, and this narrative, have the following structure: Chapter 2. 2.1. Chapter 3. 4.1.