Development language

[Erik Cruz]

Hi.

Is it possible to know what was the platform/language used to build a web
service or wsdl file?

TIA,
Erik Cruz

 

[Dave Beauchemin [MVP]]

Not unless the web service provides this information in the WSDL contract.
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Dave Beauchemin
Microsoft MVP, MCP
www.webdotmag.com
xmldude at mvps dot org

 

[Erik Cruz]

Hi Dave.

Do you know what is the wsdl element that is used for this purpose? Or any
site or material where I can find something about this specific
configuration?

TIA,
Erik Cruz

 

[Dave Beauchemin [MVP]]

Erik,

You could use the documentation element, specified in the WSDL 1.2
specification, for this purpose (cf.
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl12/#eii-documentation). This element is also
present in WSDL 1.1. You can include whatever you want in here, so long as
it's valid XML.

Note that you cannot guarantee the presence of this element with the WSDL
parser (you probably wouldn't want to either), so you should verify it's
presence programmatically, and generate an application-level exception as
appropriate, if this information is required.
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Dave Beauchemin
Microsoft MVP, MCP
www.webdotmag.com