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Are there documentation tools for SOAP web services?

Many tools are available for web service designing, programming and testing, commercial and free. But what is available in the area of documentation? Are there tools which can parse a WSDL and then generate a 'human-readable' documentation in HTML (or PDF)?

Solution

  • There is Enunciate:

    Enunciate is an engine for enhancing your Java Web service API. It's simple: you develop your Web service API using standard Java technologies and attach Enunciate to your build process.

    Use cases:

    • Development of a microservice architecture, where documentation is updated (including fully-up-to-date client libraries) as part of the build process.
    • Mobile application development where the Web service API is invoked via Enunciate-generated iOS, Android, and C# libraries.