Web Services

Mocking Web Services in InfoQ

Writing on the recent happenings in the Web services testing approaches, Boris Lublinsky has reviewed my tutorial in an InfoQ post. You can read my tutorial, Mock Web services with Apache Synapse to develop and test Web services, in the IBM developerWorks.

Mock Web services with Apache Synapse to develop and test Web services

Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service bus (ESB) released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. But for an individual developer, what’s the use of an ESB product in your day-to-day life? The simplicity of the configuration, out-of-the-box feature set, extensible architecture, and the minimal footprint makes it a versatile and powerful tool that you can use for a variety of tasks.

In this IBM developerWorks tutorial, I will explain how you can use Apache Synapse to create mock Web services. The target Web service clients and services can be in any language, such as Microsoft® .NET, Java, or PHP. You will work with several samples, starting from the most basic configuration and gradually building more complex solutions to create mock Web services.

Read the article at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/edu/ws-dw-ws-synapse.html

Apache Synapse simulate mediator

Simulate mediator is a pluggable extension to Apache Synapse and WSO2 ESB, Enterprise Service Bus products. It performs regular expression matches against the message and if all the matches succeed, it replaces the message with the given contents of the file. You can replace the whole SOAP envelope or replace only the body contents. This mediator can be used to simulate Web service responses for development and testing. Check out the sample, and download the binary with the source code here.

WSO2 WSAS (Web Services Application Server) wins Gold Award

Open source WSO2 WSAS (Web Services Application Server) won the SearchSOA.com Product of the Year award for the Data Services/Integration Category for 2007.

WSO2 WSAS can expose data stored in relational databases quickly as Web services without coding. Users can define the SQL queries and how the tabular results map into XML using an intuitive wizard.

Running WSO2 WSAS on an IBM WebSphere Application Server

WSO2 Web Services Application Server (WSAS) is an open-source application server for Web services, supporting a whole array of open Web services standards and protocols. It is built on top of Apache Axis2 Web services framework and integrates several other open-source components and tools. In this article, I show you how to successfully integrate the WSO2 Web Services Application Server with the IBM WebSphere Application Server V6.1.

Read the article at http://wso2.org/library/2735