Concept : Understanding WSDL Files
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A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file is an eXstensible Markup Language (XML) description of a web service interface, often a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) interface. WSDL files are XML files that explain how to access and use the interfaces to the web service you want to include in your project. In the Bungee environment, communication with a web service is achieved using either the SOAP protocol, or REST (Bungee Builder also supports REST).
When you import a WSDL file into the Bungee Builder development environment, Bungee Builder creates a visual representation (object) of the data structure contained in the XML file you import. This visual representation appears in the Solution Explorer portion of Bungee Builder as a project containing class structures that map to the XML structure of the imported WSDL. You can use this project to create an application interface to the web service represented by the WSDL file. In addition, you can subclass the WSDL APIs and add your own fields and functions to the default class structure. Such sub-classing and class aggregation does not affect the underlying WSDL, but does provide the ability to add functionality to the Model.
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