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 physical size of the WSDL should not matter if you generate client stubs classes at compile time (e.g. via AXIS wsdl2java.) If you are downloading the WSDL and parsing it for each request then the download time will likely dwarf the parse time. Consider caching the file locally if the download time becomes an issue. If the parse time becomes an issue you may want to consider trimming the file or caching the parsed objects. Use care when caching or trimming the file as you will need to integrate any changes when your provider issues a new WSDL. Consider updating your cached/trimmed WSDL each time the service is restarted or at some interval.