WS-MetaDataExchange is a web services protocol specification, published by BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft, and SAP.
WS-MetaDataExchange is part of the WS-Federation roadmap; and is designed to work in conjunction with WS-Addressing, WSDL and WS-Policy to allow retrieval of metadata about a Web Services endpoint.
[1] It uses a SOAP message to request metadata, and so goes beyond the basic technique of appending "?wsdl" to a service name's URL This computer networking article is a stub.
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