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SOAPUI is a very useful free tool which can be used in SOA testing. Service invocation using SOAPUI is straight forward and you can find a lot of references by surfing web. However, there are limited information about invoking services with various QOS (Quality of Service) features such as WS-Security, WS-Addressing etc. This post takes you through the simplest QOS scenario, a web service is secured with UserName token policy and how SOAPUI is used to invoke such a service. I will use the default HelloService hosted in WSO2 WSAS in this demonstration but the service invocation approach is similar with any service provider. Pre-requisites: 1. Download and install SOAPUI-3.6.1 or later (free version) 2. Download and install WSO2 WSAS-3.* Step 1 First, we need to secure a web service hosted in WSAS. We will configure HelloService so that only the users in admin group will be allowed to invoke the service. In order to do that, start WSO2 WSAS and log in to management console. Then, selec...

At WSO2, we use various types of tools and programmatic approaches to load, stress and performance test SOA middleware products. Out of them, one particular tool is part of almost all engineers workspaces. It is Java bench (or java-ab). Java bench is the java clone of the popular ApacheBench load generator customized for better HTTP1.1 support. Java bench is a very simple and easy to use utility. One of the greatest advantages of using it for performance testing is, its lesser overhead on load generation machines. Most of the load generators consist of rich UIs and reporting utilities hence the load generator it self consumes considerable amount of CPU and memory when you run performance testing in single server. It is always not practical to run load generators in separate machines. Sometimes we need to run load/performance tests against a server running on a local machine in order to provide quick feedback about the product under test or reproduce perf/memory issues. In these situa...