A port type is a named set of abstract operations and the abstract messages involved.
The port type name attribute provides a unique name among all port types defined in the enclosing WSDL document.
An operation is named via the name attribute.
WSDL has four transmission primitives that an endpoint can support:
- One-way: The endpoint receives a message.
- Request-response: The endpoint receives a message and sends a correlated message.
- Solicit-response: The endpoint sends a message and receives a correlated message.
- Notification: The endpoint sends a message.
WSDL refers to these primitives as operations. Although request/response or solicit/response can be modeled abstractly using two one-way messages, it is useful to model these as primitive operation types.See the example below for more information.
Code: <definitions name="StockQuote"
targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote.wsdl"
xmlns:tns="http://example.com/stockquote.wsdl"
xmlns:xsd1="http://example.com/stockquote.xsd"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/">
<message name="SubscribeToQuotes">
<part name="body" element="xsd1:SubscribeToQuotes"/>
<part name="subscribeheader" element="xsd1:SubscriptionHeader"/>
</message>
<portType name="StockQuotePortType">
<operation name="SubscribeToQuotes">
<input message="tns:SubscribeToQuotes"/>
</operation>
</portType>
<binding name="StockQuoteSoap" type="tns:StockQuotePortType">
<soap:binding style="document" transport="http://example.com/smtp"/>
<operation name="SubscribeToQuotes">
<input message="tns:SubscribeToQuotes">
<soap:body parts="body" use="literal"/>
<soap:header message="tns:SubscribeToQuotes" part="subscribeheader" use="literal"/>
</input>
</operation>
</binding>
<service name="StockQuoteService">
<port name="StockQuotePort" binding="tns:StockQuoteSoap">
<soap:address location="mailto:subscribe@example.com"/>
</port>
</service>
<types>
<schema targetNamespace="http://example.com/stockquote.xsd"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema">
<element name="SubscribeToQuotes">
<complexType>
<all>
<element name="tickerSymbol" type="string"/>
</all>
</complexType>
</element>
<element name="SubscriptionHeader" type="uriReference"/> </schema>
</types>
</definitions> |
Reversed UML model: 
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