Re: Web Service

Thanks for clearing that up. That makes sense. I wouldn't mind having a
wizard to do the WSDL, but it seems pretty straight forward. 


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> Maybe I'm not understanding SOAP and WDSL correctly. My initial
> understanding is that a SOAP statement needs a WDSL file that defines
> among other things protocols and parameters. Is that not true?

When using the wizards/toolkits what happens is the wizard reads the
WSDL 
(not WDSL) file to get information about your web service, including how

to call it (the protocol to use) and what parameters to pass it.  It
needs 
that information in order to generate the SOAP messages.

So yes, you'd create the WSDL document first, because that'd be needed
to 
generate the SOAP messages.

But if you're doing it manually, you could do it either way, since it's 
you doing the work :)