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- SOAPSonar Personal Edition 4.5.5 (Windows)
- Free XML, SOAP, and REST based service testing. Functional, performance, compliance, and security testing modes. Full support for WSDL-based SOAP testing with comprehensive WSDL Schema parsing and SOAP message generation. Identity and security testing features including WS-Identity, WS-Security, SAML, WS-Trust, SSL. SOAPSonar is now HP Quality Center EMAP certified.Version 4.5.5...
- Software downloads 2009-07-28
- What the business doesn't know about SOA won't hurt it (Part 2)
- What the business doesn't know about SOA won't hurt it (Part 2)What is WSDL?This is an authoritive definition of SOA searched from Google;http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2005/jw-0613-soa.htmlThe page metions WSDL. What is it? What's god to do with SOA?Not a bad article overallBut it makes some erroneous assumptions regarding standards. An SOA implementation *might*...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- Definition Languages for RESTful Web Services: WADL Vs. WSDL 2.0
- In this paper there are two specifications for describing interfaces of HTTP based web applications, WADL and the WSDL 2.0 HTTP binding extension. These two languages are very similar, but there are some differences. IBM attempts to provide an unbiased, objective comparison of the two technologies, highlighting both the differences...
- White papers 2008-06-21
- Dynamo Invoker Developer 6.4 (Windows)
- You are integrating your information systems or extending your existing software offers with Web Services. Instead of spending thousands of man hours in preparing the invocation client or in testing your server implementations, come to gMorpher and solve your problems in seconds!You can start using our on-line serivice by entering...
- Software downloads 2008-06-10
- Soap Generate Gear 2.6 (Windows)
- Using Soap Generate Gear, easily and automatically generate soap protocol source code for client/server sides from wsdl file. RPC and Document style are all supported. What you need to do is just import your wsdl file and click generate button. Pure platform independent c source code to make sure highly...
- Software downloads 2008-04-02
- SOAP Client 1.6.3 (Mac)
- Version 1.0 is a major step forward in functionality for SOAP Client. SOAP Client now uses WSDL files you provide to dynamically create a graphical user interface for any given SOAP-based web service. Here's how: Find a SOAP-based web service that also has an accompanying WSDL description file. Launch...
- Software downloads 2006-11-29
- SAP paves the road to services
- SAP paves the road to servicesTrue Web Services are all DiscoverableWeb Services Description Language is one of the standards that everyone but Microsoft agreed would be part of any Web Service. Hence Microsoft fathfull who think they know what a Web Service is need an education. This article neglets to...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Building Notification-Based Web Services: WSDL Specification, BlackBerry MDS Studio Version 4.1 and BlackBerry MDS Services Requirements
- Most publicly available web services are based on a request/response paradigm. Notification-based web services are not widely available, likely due to a failure to adopt a standardized mechanism across web service toolkits. A widespread adoption would extend the interoperability of service-oriented architectures into the realm of asynchronous communication. As a...
- White papers 2006-02-23
- I found a Microsoft WSDL and all I got was this lousy T-shirt
- This is too good to pass up. Jeff Schneider, president of MomentumSI, has posted what he calls "The Great Microsoft WSDL Hunt." Enabling software with Web Services Description Language is perhaps one of the most basic aspects of SOA-enabling applications. According to Schneider, "over the last five-plus years, Microsoft has...
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- Web Services: Enumeration and Profiling
- Web services hacking begins with the Web Services Definition Language or WSDL. A WSDL file is a major source of information for an attacker. Examining a WSDL description provides critical information like methods, input and output parameters. It is important to understand the structure of a WSDL file, based on...
- White papers 2005-03-17
- SSDL: the new WSDL?
- Just when the world is starting to figure out the nuances and applications of WSDL Web Services Description Language, a new way of describing Web services messages has been thrown into the mix. A new "experimentalframework" for Web Services description -- called the SOAP Service Description Language SSDL -- has...
- Blog posts 2005-02-17
- Standards revolt
- It isn't often that you see a groundswell of opposition rise to a specification in "Last Call" mode. That's why there's been quite a bit of buzz in the blogosphere and beyond over Rich Salz's scathing critique of the new Web Services Description Language spec (WSDL 2.0). "WSDL 2.0...
- Blog posts 2004-11-24
- Understanding WSDL
- This paper explains the importance of WSDL in the overall Web services architecture, as it describes the complete contract for application communication. It also explains how to make Web services widely approachable by using WSDL definitions to generate code that knows precisely how to interact with the Web service described,...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- SOA From the Ground Up
- In this webcast, you will learn how to build WSDL using the SOA Editor, benefits of WSDL-first approach, granularity with regard to business process, ease-of-use, cross-referencing between WSDL elements, and validation capability within the SOA Editor, the importance of WSDL later during BPEL composition, re-use of existing Schema to create...
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- MSDN Webcast: Windows Communication Foundation Top to Bottom (Part 03 of 15): Contract Versioning (Level 200)
- Clients rely on contracts defined by the Web Services Description Language WSDL to communicate with services. The WSDL contract describes the operations available at each service endpoint and the format and schema for messages related to each operation, including the schema for complex types exchanged between parties. Making changes to...
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- Enough of RESTless SOA? Speak now or forever hold your peace
- Sounds like he;s never build anything substantial with either oneThere's nothing more expensive or less productive about using SOAP vs REST, nor that says you can't use both at the same time.Theres nothing more or less opaque or different about the data being transfered or the state management.Neither dictates any...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-04
- Bricksoft IM Web Services 2.0 (Windows)
- IM Web Services enable to quickly integrate MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM feature into any applications across multiple platforms, systems and even across businesses. IM Web Services is standards with SOAP and WSDL will enable system-to-system communication that is easier and cheaper than ever SDK before. Features (MSN/Yahoo/ICQ/AIM) Send and receive instant messagesUnicode supported...
- Software downloads 2009-08-06
- Six ways to make SOA services more reusable
- Achieving service reuse is a multi-dimensional problem that ties into technical approaches as well as business governance. In my last post, I surfaced some of JP Morgenthal's concerns about the reusability of services in their current state or statefulness. But there are steps that can be taken...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Active Endpoints aims at greater process design and implementation productivity with ActiveVOS enhancements
- Active Endpoints, maker of the ActiveVOS visual orchestration system, has kicked things up a notch with the recent release of ActiveVos 6.1, which incorporates new features and functions designed to make developers more productive. The latest offering from the Waltham, Mass. company provides what amounts to shrink-wrapped...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Altova MissionKit for Software Architect 2009 (Windows)
- The Altova MissionKit 2009 for Enterprise Software Architects is an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools from the developers of XMLSpy. It delivers eight tools for less than the price of two! The Altova MissionKit for Enterprise Software Architects includes Enterprise Editions of Altova XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, UModel,...
- Software downloads 2009-03-16
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