NonStop SOAP for Java User's Manual

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unmarshal.
unmarshal. To deserialize a data stream to create a C++/Java object, for example, to
convert an XML document into a C++ object.
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). The generic set of all names and addresses that refer
to resources.
URI. See Uniform Resource Identifier.
Web Application Resource (WAR). A collection of all files needed to create a web
application in a single file using the Zip compression algorithm. Specified in the servlet
2.2. API.
Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Web Services Description Language
(WSDL) is an XML-based language that captures the mechanical information a client
needs to access a web service: definitions of message formats, SOAP details, and a
destination URL. WSDL provides a simple way for service providers to describe the
basic format of requests to their systems regardless of the underlying protocol (such as
Simple Object Access Protocol or XML).
WSDL. See Web Services Description Language.
XML. Extensible Markup Language, a standard for tagging data in an HTML document
which describes as to provide semantic information about content elements.