WSDL-web service description language
the adoption of SOAP's messaging formats brought about a need
to describle operational information in an equally structured
way.
a WSDL document is a recipe used to automate the details involed
in application-to-application communication.
it used to define the interfaces and datatypes for a discreet
piece of programming logic. wsdl describles what a service does,
how to invoke its operations, and where to find it.
WSDL Elements
1 <definitions>
it provides a place to do global declarations of namespaces that are
intended to be visible throughout the rest of the document.