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Section 3 [ Working with SOAP ]

3.0 How do I debug my SOAP program?

3.0 How do I debug my SOAP program?

There are two tools available for debugging your SOAP programs. These enable you to view the SOAP messages being sent back and forth.

tcpTunnelGUI
Author: Sanjiva Weerawarana
Apache SOAP comes with a debugging tool called TcpTunnelGUI. A TcpTunnelGui object listens on the given port, and once Start is pressed, will forward all bytes to the given host and port. All traffic is displayed in a UI. It can be invoked from the command line as
java org.apache.soap.util.net.TcpTunnelGui [listenport] [tunnelhost] [tunnelport]

Here <listenport> is the port that tcpTunnelGUI listens on and <tunnelhost> and <tunnelport> are the actual host and port where the SOAP service runs. To trace SOAP traffic, make the SOAP client talk to <localhost>:<listenport> The tcpTunnelGUI tool will pass the request through to the actual service and send the response that it gets back to the requesting client. The traffic of the SOAP request/response is dumped in different windows.

tcpTunnel
Author: Simon Fell
A native Win32 version of tcpTunGUI, built using Attila (not MFC). It is pretty much a copy of the Apache tool, except that it tracks the different connections separately, rather than them being bundled into one display. This is available from http://www.pocketsoap.com/tcptrace/.

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Date: Dec 16, 2000
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