NAME

       ada2wsdl - Generate a WDSL document from an Ada package specification

SYNOPSIS

       ada2wsdl [options] ada_spec

DESCRIPTION

       The  Ada  Web  Server  is  a library that allows you to embed a web server into your Ada application.  It
       provides not only HTTP but also SOAP, WSDL and several other facilities.  Thus you can write full-fledged
       web applications.

       WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) is a language based on XML.  WSDL documents describe, in a  formal
       way,  the  interface  to  Web  Services.  This  description  consists of the end-point (URL to the server
       offering the service), the SOAPAction (needed to call the remote procedure), the procedure  names  and  a
       description of the input and output parameters.

       Using  ada2wsdl,  you  can create a WSDL document that describes Web Services provided by an Ada package.
       ada2wsdl uses ASIS to parse your Ada package specification, and generates a WSDL document by mapping  Ada
       types to Web Services types, and Ada subprograms to operations.

       Please see the AWS User's guide for more details on how ada2wsdl works, and how you can use it to develop
       web services.

OPTIONS

       -a url Specify the URL for the Web Server address. Web Services will be available at this address. A port
              can be specified on the URL, http://server[:port]. The default value is http://.../.

       -f     Force creation of the WSDL file. Overwrite exiting file with the same name.

       -I path
              Add  path  option  for the ASIS compilation step. This option can appear any number of time on the
              command line.

       -noenum
              Do not generate WSDL representation for Ada enumerations, map them to standard string.

       -o file
              Generate the WSDL document into file.

       -q     Quiet mode (no output).

       -s name
              Specify the Web Service name for the WSDL document, by default the spec package's name is used.

       -v     Verbose mode, display the parsed spec.

BUGS

       ada2wsdl does not handle constrained arrays in records.

       Unbounded_String are supported with full interoperability only inside a record.

       Only unconstrained arrays are supported.

       Arrays with multiple dimensions are not supported.

SEE ALSO

       awsres(1), wsdl2aws(1)

       The Ada Web Server User's Guide in package libaws-doc.

AUTHOR

       wsdl2aws was written by Dmitriy Anisimkov <anisimkov@yahoo.com> and Pascal  Obry  <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>  as
       part of the Ada Web Server.

       This manual page was written by Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> for Debian GNU/Linux.

GNU Ada Tools                                      11 JUN 2004                                       ADA2WSDL(1)