Configuring SoapUI for JMS services using Hermes JMS

Web services use multiple protocols for transport, for example, HTTP or JMS. Communication can also be different, for example, Soap or JSON. So let's go configure JMS for different middleware like Tibco,Oracle SOA, IBM WebSphere.

To configure JMS in SoapUI we have a utility called Hermes JMS to help us configure JMS in our test.

Following are the steps to configure Hermes JMS in SoapUI:

1. Open HermesJMS from the Tools option on the top and select HermesJMS:
   
2. Verify that HermesJMS will open on your desktop:
   
3. Configuring a session: Select a New Session:
   
4. Configuring a New session: On selection of a new session, verify that the Preferences window comes up:
   
5. On the Preferences window select the Providers tab.
   
6. On selection of a New Group add the Jars based on the middleware used, for example, for Tibco, use the following JARS:
   • Tibemsd.JAR
   • Tibjms.jar
   • Tibjmsadmin.jar
7. For Active MQ use the following:
   • com.ibm.mq.pcf-6.1.jar
   • com.ibm.mq.jar
   • com.ibm.mqjms.jar
   • dhbcore...