Dominate the Salesforce Integration Architect Exam 2025 – Connect, Conquer, and Thrive!

Sharing a generated WSDL (Web Services Description Language) with client applications is a critical step in allowing those applications to understand how to interact with a web service. The WSDL file outlines the service's interface, detailing the operations available, the parameters required for each operation, and the data types used.

Generating and sharing the WSDL is the direct action necessary for client applications to utilize the web service. Once the WSDL is made available, client applications can automatically generate the necessary code to call the web service methods, ensuring that communication between the service and clients is both effective and structured. This process establishes the contract between the service provider and the service consumer.

The other choices do not align with the specific action of sharing a WSDL. For instance, creating an inner class to handle errors is associated with error management rather than the specification of services. Defining data mapping in an outer class pertains to how data is structured and transformed but does not involve the sharing of the WSDL information itself. Similarly, creating a dashboard relates to data visualization and monitoring, which is entirely different from the technicalities of service specification and client interaction. Therefore, generating and sharing the WSDL is the necessary and correct action to facilitate client applications' access to the web service.