WSDL cheat sheet

With the plethora of tools available today for webservices development, we sometimes forget the basic fundamental semantics of a WSDL document. Here is a quick reference of what a WSDL contains:
1. Types: These are the data type definitions - expressed as a schema of complex/simple types.
2. Message: A message consists of a logical order of one or more types.
3. Operation: Defines a operation that consists of a input and output message.
4. Porttype: A collection of operations.
5. Binding: Specifies the concrete protocol data format specifications (e.g. document-literal) for a portType.
6. Port: Specifies a network addresss for a binding, thus defining a single communication endpoint.
7. Service: collection of endpoints or ports

Thus a service is defined by one or more endpoints/ports. A port is combination of a binding with a network address. Each binding is a combination of a porttype and concrete data format specifications. Each porttype is a collection of operations that define messages that are exchanged.

More information can be found here.