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<h1 class="topictitle1">Editing WSDL files with the WSDL Editor</h1>
<div><p>The WSDL editor allows you to easily and graphically create, modify,
view, and validate WSDL files.</p>
<p>Using the WSDL editor, you can do the following:</p>
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<li>Create new WSDL files</li>
<li>Validate and edit WSDL files</li>
<li>Create and delete: <ul>
<li>Services: used to aggregate a set of related ports. These are the root
elements of all WSDL files.</li>
<li>Ports: specify an address for a binding, thus defining a single communication
endpoint.</li>
<li>Bindings: specify concrete protocol and data format specifications for
the operations and messages defined by a particular port type.</li>
<li>Port types: a set of abstract operations that each refer to an input message
and output messages.</li>
<li>Operations: input and output messages.</li>
<li>Messages: represent an abstract definition of the data being transmitted.
A message consists of logical parts, each of which is associated with a definition
within some type system.</li>
<li>Parts: a flexible mechanism for describing the logical abstract content
of a message.</li>
<li>Types: describe all the data types used between the client and server.
WSDL is not tied exclusively to a specific typing system, but it uses the
W3C XML Schema specification as its default choice.</li>
<li>Import statements: used to associate a namespace with a document location. </li>
</ul>
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<li>Import existing WSDL files for structured viewing</li>
<li>Generate documentation from a WSDL document.</li>
</ul>
<p>The WSDL support in the WSDL editor is based on the W3C <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl" target="_blank">Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1</a>. The WSDL specification from the W3C Web site is
also used for validation.  </p>
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<li class="ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../tasks/tedtwsdl.html">Editing WSDL files</a></strong><br />
Once you have created a WSDL file, you can edit it in the WSDL editor. You can also import WSDL files you have created into the workbench and edit them in the WSDL editor.</li>
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<div class="linklist"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cwsdl.html">WSDL</a></div></div>
<div class="linklist"><strong>Related tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="../tasks/tcrtwsdl.html" title="You can create a new, empty WSDL file, then edit it using the WSDL editor.">Creating a new WSDL file</a></div>
<div><a href="../tasks/tedtwsdl.html" title="Once you have created a WSDL file, you can edit it in the WSDL editor. You can also import WSDL files you have created into the workbench and edit them in the WSDL editor.">Editing WSDL files</a></div></div>
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