Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) An XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either "document oriented" or "procedure oriented" information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services).
WSDL is typically used with SOAP over HTTP but it is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages independent of what message formats or network protocols. [Reference?]Last updated: 2004-06-21
Web Services
<standard, programming, software>
A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
W3C Web Services.Last updated: 2004-06-23
Web Services Business Process Execution Language
(WSBPEL, BPEL4WS) An OASIS technical committee considering ways to enable users to describe business processes as web services and define how they can be connected to accomplish specific tasks.
http://oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsbpel.Last updated: 2006-08-15
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