Archive for April, 2007

soapUI vs. JUnit

Saturday, April 28th, 2007
Open source soapUI tool has a number of benefits over developing test cases in Java using JUnit framework. Some of these benefits include: Use of UI for creating/configuring tests. This makes it possible for non-programmers to develop tests, which means that testing of Web services can be performed by a QA/system test group. Auto-generation of [...]

Create JAX-WS Service in 5 Minutes (Tutorial)

Thursday, April 19th, 2007
This is a brief tutorial describing how to create a Web service using WSDL and annotations. The approach presented here allows you to design and implement your WSDL/Schema and Java classes independently without having to generate anything. You can then use annotations to map Java classes to appropriate WSDL and Schema elements. Since JAXB and JAX-WS [...]

WS-I Basic Security Profile Has Been Released

Thursday, April 12th, 2007
The final version of Basic Security Profile 1.0 (BSP) was recently been released by WS-I. This is certainly a welcome event; WS-Security is broad and complex and it has been plagued by interoperability issues for quite some time (although the situation has improved in the last year or so). The BSP document seems to have [...]

WSDL Naming Conventions

Sunday, April 8th, 2007
Web service providers communicate with their customers (consumers) by the means of publishing WSLD of the service. In most cases, developers create the client code for the service by generating classes from the published WSDL file. While JAX-WS makes it possible to avoid code generation entirely (as I described in this post) and hand-code all [...]