The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) is a simple Java
API for invoking Web services, no matter how or where the
services are provided.
WSIF enables developers to interact with abstract
representations of Web services through their WSDL descriptions
instead of working directly with the Simple Object Access
Protocol (SOAP) APIs, which is the usual programming model.
With WSIF, developers can work with the same programming model
regardless of how the Web service is implemented and accessed.
WSIF allows stubless or completely dynamic invocation of a Web
service, based upon examination of the meta-data about the
service at runtime. It also allows updated implementations of
a binding to be plugged into WSIF at runtime, and it allows
the calling service to defer choosing a binding until runtime.
Finally, WSIF is closely based upon WSDL, so it can invoke any
service that can be described in WSDL.

• Igor Vlasenko

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