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The '''Web Services Invocation Framework''' (WSIF) supports a simple Java API for invoking Web services, no matter how or where the services are provided. The framework allows maximum flexibility for the invocation of any [[Web Services Description Language|WSDL]]-described service.

The official version of WSIF can be found on the Apache web site since WSIFIBM washas donated WSIF to Apache. Software Foundation.

In the WSDL specification, Web service binding descriptions are extensions to the specification. So the SOAP binding, for example, is one way to expose the abstract functionality (and there could be others). Since WSIF mirrors WSDL very closely, it also views SOAP as just one of several ways you might wish to expose your software's functionality. WSDL thus becomes a normalized description of software, and WSIF is the natural client programming model.