WSDL generation for Java classes

In order to deploy methods of java classes as WebServices, it is necessary to describe their interface, the transfer protocol binding, the message encoding style and the endpoint address of the service. Therefore WSDL was defined by a couple of international enterprises (IBM, Microsoft, ...), to fulfill these requirements of WebService description.

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links to WSDL and SOAP toolkits (free and non-free)