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You're reading from Web Services Testing with soapUI Starting with an overview of SOA and web services testing, this guide take you through a number of hands-on exercises and projects to get you familiar with soapUI. A sure way to raise the quality of your web services.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515665

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

SoapUI

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Charitha Kankanamge

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Web Services Testing with soapUI

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Web Services Testing and soapUI FREE CHAPTER

2. The Sample Project

3. First Steps with soapUI and Projects

4. Working with Your First TestSuite

5. Load and Performance Testing with soapUI

6. Web Service Simulation with soapUI

7. Advanced Functional Testing with soapUI

8. Getting Started with REST Testing

9. Testing Databases with soapUI

10. JMS Testing with soapUI

11. Extending soapUI with Scripting

12. Automated Testing with soapUI

13. Miscellaneous Topics

Index

Deploying web services

Though we developed all the Java classes included in our sample hotel reservation system, we have not made them web services yet. In other words, still, our three web service implementation classes cannot be invoked by a web service client, such as soapUI. In this section, we make a deployable artifact so that we can deploy the services in a service container such as Apache Axis2.

There are multiple ways of deploying a web service in the Apache Axis2 SOAP engine. We will use the service archive-based deployment mechanism where we create a deployable archive with all service artifacts and copy that into the Axis2 server's deployment folder. In this mechanism, the deployable artifact is known as an Axis2 Archive (aar).

In order to deploy an Axis2 service as an aar file, a deployment descriptor should be included with it. The Axis2 deployment descriptor is known as services.xml and must be placed inside the META-INF folder of the aar file. The services.xml tells the Axis2...