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[[WS-Federation]] roadmap; and is designed to work in conjunction with [[WS-Addressing]], [[Web Services Description Language|WSDL]] and [[WS-Policy]] to allow retrieval of metadata |
[[WS-Federation]] roadmap; and is designed to work in conjunction with [[WS-Addressing]], [[Web Services Description Language|WSDL]] and [[WS-Policy]] to allow retrieval of metadata |
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about a Web Services endpoint.<ref>[http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-05-a.html Cover Pages: Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange) for Service Endpoints<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. |
about a Web Services endpoint.<ref>[http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-05-a.html Cover Pages: Web Services Metadata Exchange (WS-MetadataExchange) for Service Endpoints<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. |
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It uses a SOAP message to request metadata, and so goes beyond the basic technique of appending "?wsdl" to a service name's URL |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
Revision as of 01:20, 20 April 2010
WS-MetaDataExchange is a Web Services protocol specification, published by BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP. WS-MetaDataExchange is part of the WS-Federation roadmap; and is designed to work in conjunction with WS-Addressing, WSDL and WS-Policy to allow retrieval of metadata about a Web Services endpoint.[1].
It uses a SOAP message to request metadata, and so goes beyond the basic technique of appending "?wsdl" to a service name's URL