NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

8 NonStop SOAP 4 Service Description Language

The NonStop SOAP 4 SDL file is an XML file that describes the Web services deployed in NonStop

SOAP 4. The SDL file along with the data definition language file for the Web service is used as

an input by the SoapAdminCL tool to generate the WSDL file, HTML clients, XML schema files,

SOAP request and response XML files, and the services.xml file for NonStop SOAP 4 services.

NonStop SOAP 4 does not use the SDL file during runtime.

You can generate an SDL file for NonStop SOAP 4 services by:

• Using the NonStop SOAP 3 service definition repository file with the NonStop SOAP 4

SoapAdminCL tool

• Copying and updating the SDL files distributed with the NonStop SOAP 4 distribution

• Using the NonStop SOAP 4 Administration Utility

This chapter describes the SDL file and its elements:

• “SDL File Elements and Attributes” (page 153)

• “SDL Service Types” (page 154)

SDL File Elements and Attributes

The SDL file describes the target service to be deployed in NonStop SOAP 4. The hierarchy of the

elements in the SDL document type definition (DTD) file is as follows:

<sdl>

NOTE: All attribute values are case-sensitive. Use these values as detailed in this manual.

The following sections describe the SDL file elements and their attributes.

The sdl Element

The sdl element is the base element of the SDL file. This element is mandatory and its definition

appears in the SDL file as:

<sdl Url="/<url_pattern>" ServerAddress="http://<ip address>:<port>">

The sdl element has the following attributes:

• ServerAddress

• Url

The ServerAddress attribute

The ServerAddress attribute specifies the location (the protocol, ip address, and port) of the

iTP WebServer where the NonStop SOAP 4 server is deployed. The default location is

http://www.nonstopsoap.com.

For example:

SDL file:

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