soapUI integration with external web services' frameworks

soapUI cannot only be considered as purely a web service testing tool. As we discussed in previous chapters, soapUI provides us with the features to work with both client and server side of the general web service equation. SOAP message transmission over HTTP or JMS, RESTful service invocations are the obvious examples of using soapUI as a web service client. The mock service generation can be considered a good example for service hosting capabilities provided by soapUI.

In SOA, services are built using various commercial or open source web services frameworks. For example, one may use Apache CXF (http://cxf.apache.org) to develop and host the web services whereas another may use Jboss (http://www.jboss.org/jbossws/) or Apache Axis2 for the same purpose. Many of these web service frameworks provide web service developers with numerous tools to assist them in web service development and testing tasks. With soapUI, you can directly...