CXF's WSDL Validator

[Robert Liguori <ro...@gmail.com>]

Does CXF's WSDL Validator do #3 and #4?

1. Check the WSDL document for XML well formedness.
2. Validate the WSDL document against its XML schema.
3. Validate the WSDL document using semantic rules defined in the WSDL
specification.
4. Validate the WSDL document against custom validation rules, such as those
defined by the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization.

Thanks!

Re: CXF's WSDL Validator

[Daniel Kulp <dk...@apache.org>]

On Tuesday 19 October 2010 3:39:27 pm Robert Liguori wrote:
> Does CXF's WSDL Validator do #3 and #4?
> 
> 1. Check the WSDL document for XML well formedness.

Yep.  The XML parser itself should do this.

> 2. Validate the WSDL document against its XML schema.

Yep.

> 3. Validate the WSDL document using semantic rules defined in the WSDL
> specification.
> 4. Validate the WSDL document against custom validation rules, such as
> those defined by the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) organization.

For both of these, the answer is "Some".  There are some WSI-BP rules that it 
does check for and various wsdl spec things it checks for.   Most of the 
checks have been added in response to various users issues over the years.  
Things like strange exceptions or incorrect generated code or something that 
were results of bad wsdl.  We would add a check that throws a better error 
message.


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