Although it has been a while since I posted about SoapUI I am still receiving questions about the tool. The most frequently asked question is how to solve the error ‘Error import WSDL’ so I will post the steps I took in the past to solve this error, hoping that this might help you. The first step I usually take is to try to open the WSDL in a web browser.
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This will be the last ‘hands-on’ article about testing Oracle WSM setup with SoapUI. I have posted about two other examples here and here. In this example Oracle WSM is configured to verify the signature of the incoming SOAP message (request) and to add a digital signature to the outgoing message (response). How to arrange this in Oracle WSM is described in the book so I won’t describe that here. What I will show is how to setup SoapUI to test the OWSM setup.
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As said before I am currently going through the book ‘Oracle Web Service Manager‘. In chapter 5 of this book an example is given how to configure OWSM to encrypt outgoing and decrypt incoming soap messages for a web service. To test this setup a dotNet client is created. In this post I will show you how you can test the setup by using SoapUI instead.
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Last week I started to have a look at the product ‘Oracle Web Server Manager‘. I am reading a packtpub book about this product and am halfway now. I will post more about this book later but one thing I one to mention already is that there are several examples described which are tested by creating a web service client with .Net. I am not familiar with .Net (and do not have the intention to change that) so I used my favorite tool SoapUI as client to test the Oracle gateway.
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As I have posted before we are using XFire to implement our web service. Unfortunately, we are running into some serious issues with the framework, so we decided to look after another implementation. Since XFire is no longer supported by the community (or at least at a very low profile) and ‘replaced’ by CXF, we decided to have a look at Spring WS. We also have used the Spring Framework throughout our application elsewhere, so this would be a logical choice. After a quick look at the framework it convinced us that this would be the framework to use for our web services. It was easy to set up and well documented.
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In this blog I’ll show you how you can create a WebService of your EJB3 objects by using anotations. I will also show you how to build and deploy the package with Maven2. Let’s start with the initial situation.
I have installed JBoss 4.2.1 and Maven2. In my settings.xml of Maven2 I have set a property pointing to my JBoss installation and I have defined a JBoss/Maven2 repository.

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As I described here I had a situation in which we wanted to be able to store all incoming SOAP requests for debugging purposes. The thing that made it a little tricky was that the logging had to be done before the request reached the XFire servlet and after JBoss had decoded the request (it is sent using https) and made it readable for us, humans.
Now I am aware of the HTTPtunnelers and other tools out there that could be used for this, but to find one that works according to our demands and to find out how it works, we decided it would easier/quicker to create a Filter and use that for our needs.
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While performing the load test of our web service (of course with my favourite tool SoapUI) I was getting some errors when I used a number of threads at a time to call my service. Most error messages were related to an invalid XML format of the incoming message. I was told this probably had something to do with SoapUI (that would be the first drawback with it…). When multiple threads are used in SoapUI to sent the messages, they somehow would get mixed up and invalid SOAP messages were sent. So I was told.
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Well, I think it is clear now I am a big fan of SoapUI. So here is another post about it. This time I explain how you can use it to perform a load test for your webservice and how to work around a common issue with this test. One of the business rules we have is that a message may only be processed succesfully once. To implement this, a unique referenceNumber is supplied in the body of the SOAP message (I know, it was better to use a policy for that by adding a SOAP header, but this is a piece of legacy I have to deal with). In the webservice (actually in a XFire handler) the referenceNumber is checked against all processed referenceNumbers in a database and if it already exists, a fault message is returned.
To avoid this fault message in our load test we added several steps to our Soap UI testcase that increases this referenceNumber, so it’s unique for every message.
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As I blogged a few posts ago, we are using the freeedition of soapUI to test our webservice and are very pleased about it.
In this post I will show you one way to solve a common problem when you are testing your software. It is the initial managing the state of the database you are using for your tests. Since you want to run you’re tests with a simple push of a button you don’t want to have to set the state of your database correctly by hand. So what we did was we created a Java class that calls our sql scripts that sets the initial state of our database. For performing the actual scripts the class uses the SQLExec task of Ant.
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