Re: Webservice Test Applications

[Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So, perhaps I misunderstood.  What are you looking for?  What I liked 
about the Web Services Explorer was the ability to navigate to a WSDL in 
a project and then select the methods that were exposed as services and 
send data to that service and receive a response.

Unless you are testing something after you deploy, this works great 
(unless it is an RPG based service).  After deployment, I can use the 
TCPMonitor for Axis since it will intercept the request and display it. 
Since it is a proxy, it may not be limited to AXIS calls, it may 
intercept any TCP traffic on a given port and then forward it.  Haven't 
tried that though and it certainly wouldn't let you make changes.

I'll take a look at what you have.

Pete Helgren


albartell wrote:

> After looking at the tooling in Eclipse WTP it appears that it is exactly
> what WDSc already has (for the most part) in respect to the Web Services
> Explorer.
>
> Bummer.
>
> I will keep looking and let everyone know if I find anything.
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: albartell [mailto:albartell@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:59 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] Webservice Test Applications
>
> Cool!  Thanks for the suggestion Pete. I haven't followed that project for
> quite some time as I use MyEclipse IDE for most of my J2EE development.
> Looks like I should take another peak at what WTP has to offer <doing the
> update manager now>
>
> In the meantime, if anyone else is in need of a easy to use, "raw" tool to
> test your web services please check out this little program I wrote (open
> source). Also, if anybody wants to add features to it that would be great!
>
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/?p=17
>
> Aaron Bartell
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Pete Helgren
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 2:09 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Webservice Test Applications
>
> Aaron,
>
> I am using the web tools plugin for Eclipse.   
> http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/ .  I also use the TCPMonitor for Axis.  
> But then most of my web services are written in Java because there is no
> Axis-like services interface for RPG programs (but I am thinking about
> developing one).
>
> Pete Helgren
>
>
> albartell wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I am wondering what people are using to test their web services.  WDSc 
> > has tooling to do it if a WSDL has been created and you have access to 
> > it, but sometimes a more "raw" approach is needed.  That is why I have 
> > needed to develop something custom (Java thick client), but am hoping 
> > there is something else out there that already has a lot of the 
> > features I am looking for.
> >
> > Here is a screen shot of what I have built:
> > http://mowyourlawn.com/temp/WST.jpg
> >
> > There are a lot more things I want to put in it like the ability to 
> > save "profiles" so you don't have to type everything in time and time
> >    
> again.
>  
>
> > Anyways, what does everybody else use?
> >
> > Aaron Bartell
> >
> >
> >
> >    
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