How do you consume a SOAP web service in Mule?

• A. Publish the WSDL to Anypoint Exchange.
• B. Use a REST connector with a WSDL URL.
• C. Add WSC connector module to application pom and add WSDL to connector configuration.
• D. SOAP cannot be consumed in Mule.

Answer: (C)

Consuming a SOAP web service in Mule is done by using a SOAP client built from the Web Service Consumer (WSC) module. You add the WSC dependency to your project (application pom) and configure it with the WSDL URL. The WSC reads the WSDL to understand the available operations and the required message structure, then generates the SOAP client calls for the selected operation, handling the envelopes and mapping between SOAP and Mule payloads. This approach is the standard way to invoke a SOAP service; you don’t need to publish the WSDL to Exchange, using a REST connector isn’t appropriate for SOAP, and SOAP can indeed be consumed in Mule.