Question

from a non technical intermediary I got a question for a number of files (.xsd and .wsdl) for an external organization that wil be using our webservice.

This is de first time for me that i’ve written a webservice for an external party that wil be using a different technique other than .NET (it will be java).

as read in the post: How to generate XSD files for web service I think only sending the wsdl file wil be sufficient.

Can someone tell me if i’m right. If not so. How do i generate a fitting xsd with this wsdl?

Answer 1

For what I know, exposing WSDL is enough.
Every language able to read wsdl could create proxies, wrappers and/or classes to make it easier to access/consume your webservice.
As described in Wikipedia page

The WSDL describes services as collections of network endpoints, or
ports. The WSDL specification provides an XML format for documents for
this purpose. The abstract definitions of ports and messages are
separated from their concrete use or instance, allowing the reuse of
these definitions. A port is defined by associating a network address
with a reusable binding, and a collection of ports defines a service.
Messages are abstract descriptions of the data being exchanged, and
port types are abstract collections of supported operations. The
concrete protocol and data format specifications for a particular port
type constitutes a reusable binding, where the operations and messages
are then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format. In
this way, WSDL describes the public interface to the Web service.

WSDL
is often used in combination with SOAP and an XML Schema to provide
Web services over the Internet. A client program connecting to a Web
service can read the WSDL file to determine what operations are
available on the server. Any special datatypes used are embedded in
the WSDL file in the form of XML Schema. The client can then use SOAP
to actually call one of the operations listed in the WSDL file using
XML or HTTP.