Working with large wsdl, can we trim it?

Question

My webservice provider give me a large WSDL file, but we are going to use only a few function inside.

I believe that the large WSDL have negative impact to the appli

Answer 1

The size of the WSDL will have zero impact on performance... unless you are downloading it and/or parsing it for every request. And if you are doing the latter, don't. It need only be processed when the service changes, and the service should always change compatibly, with continuing support of old messages (at least for some overlapping time period).

You should consider processing a WSDL to be a program change, and do it as you would any release, with versioning, and testing, etc.