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Posted to soap-user@ws.apache.org by ashish ranjan <ar...@cs.fiu.edu> on 2002/01/16 01:40:28 UTC

Question from A new SOAP user

What exactly happens when a SOAP client calls a webservice.(please explain
in brief)

What is the role of WSDL?

What is the use of WSDL at the server side?

Suppose the client knows what all service is provided by a webservice,
then does the client need to process WSDL in any way?

I am asking this because, if for each SOAP call server side loads WSDL
then the process will be very inefficient.

ashish