Testing services

 

In this topic ... Examining the Service Inputs and Outputs   Related Topics ... Overview: Services How to Create Web Services How to Use the Web Service Enable Builder

We can test the services you call or create as follows:

• Use Apache AXIS TCP Monitor

• Enable the Log Request/Response input in the builder call

 

Examining the Service Inputs and Outputs

There are two ways we can examine service inputs and outputs:

• Apache AXIS TCP Monitor

• Log Request/Response Input

The following sections describes each approach in more detail.

 

Using Apache AXIS TCP Monitor

Follow these steps to monitor service requests and responses with Apache AXIS TCP Monitor:

1. Start Apache AXIS TCP Monitor with the following command in the project's WEB-INF/lib directory:

   java -cp axis.jar org.apache.axis.utils.tcpmon 8090 localhost 8080

   • Replace "8090" with an available port on which you want the utility to listen for service requests and responses

   • Replace "localhost" with the hostname of the server that the Web service is calling.

   • Replace "8080" with the port on the server that the Web service is calling.

2. In the Service Call builder call, set the Service URL (override) input (in the Advance group) to:

   http://factoryhost:8090

   • Replace "factoryhost" with the host name of the machine running the Factory.

   • Replace "8090" with the port number you used when starting Apache AXIS TCP Monitor.

As a result of these steps, the log data is written to your deployed application WAR's WEB-INF/logs folder. Look for the file debugTracing.txt in that folder.

 

Enabling the Log Request/Response Input

We can display service input and output streams by enabling the Log Request/Response input in the service call's builder call editor. The information is the same as that in the Apache AXIS TCP Monitor.