Tue, May 31 2005 8:30 PM Rob van der Meijden

Monitoring Webservices

After a fine research by Hedde van der Lugt we decided to use the  Mindreef SOAPscope product to monitor and test the web services we developed. This is an absolute must-have tool for everybody who is developing/testing/sniffing/deploying/using or whatever you're doing with web services. Most used  features till now:

  • Network Sniffer for SOAP messages; these messages are stored locally 
  • Message visualization (pseudo code (looks like c#), tree, xml, hex)
  • Modify and Resend SOAP messages from the local store or a WSDL file
  • WS-I compliancy testing
  • Graph View visualizes SOAP messages over time based on message occurrences, response time, or transaction size

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# re: Monitoring Webservices

Wednesday, June 01, 2005 8:36 AM by Rob van der Meijden

I also used SoapScope to test webservices because it is the best affordable tool.
An alternative, if budget is not an issue, is SoapTest from parasoft.
This is really a great tool with which you can script all kinds of tests and it also contains performance testing.

# re: Monitoring Webservices

Friday, June 03, 2005 3:13 PM by Rob van der Meijden

For now the roi of SOAPscope compared tot the overly expensive, rarely used Altova XMLSpy Enterprise edition seems really favourable...



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