Posts Tagged: web services

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Nov 08

The Future of WCF

“WCF started with a clear bias towards SOAP, WS-* protocols, and other heavyweight standards that were being popularized at the time but had not been ubiquitously adopted.
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I didn’t believe though that you could force the world to use a single approach for building web services.”
Nicholas Allen

Windows Communication Foundation has to be one of the most interesting pieces of the .Net universe released in recent years, mostly for being a huge improvement over the previous web service model in .Net. So when one the minds behind WCF writes about the framework’s future it’s certainly worth a closer look.

The Future of WCF, Part 1
The Future of WCF, Part 2

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Jun 07

Mocking web services with SoapUI

The latest release of my favorite web service testing tool has a really interesting feature:

Support for Mocking of Web Services directly from within soapUI. Mock Services can be run either from inside soapUI or with one of the IDE/Maven/CommandLine plugins.

In a service oriented architecture is usual, and desirable, to have contract definition (i.e. the web service WSDL and schema) before the service implementation is available or, at least, is robust enough for testing. Having such a tool makes the development of clients for such services much faster and removes the part of the pressure of service implementators.

Mocking web services along with other nice features like unit testing or load testing makes SoapUI probably the best tool for web service testing around, it was the only Java tool I was able to push in the Microsoft-based environment I’m working at.
 

Web Service Mocking [via SoapUI Documentation]

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