WSDL (Web Services Description Language) Question:

WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language. It is an XML representation of the web service interface.

There are two types of the operations specified in the WSDL file as represented by the <soap:binding> attribute of the file.

1. Document oriented operations -- are the ones which contain XML documents as input and output
2. Result oriented operations -- are the ones which contain input parameters as the input message and result as the output message