The latter is not a requirement of a SOAP endpoint, but it is a prerequisite for automated client-side code generation in the mainstream Java and.NET SOAP frameworks.

• 另外,虽然WSDL不是SOAP服务端点的必要条件,但目前基于Java的主流WEB服务开发框架往往需要WSDL实现客户端的源代码生成。