Lightweight Web Services Monitoring and Governance
predic8 offers open source tools that help to run a successful SOA.
Membrane SOAP Monitor
Captures, displays and manipulates SOAP messages. The XML beautifier makes it easy to analyze even complex messages.
Membrane SOA Registry
Lightweight registry that observes Web Services to insure a healthy SOA. Monitors and logs the availability of services. If a WSDL description of a service has changed the registry will detect the change.
News:
Reading WSDL Explained (26.08.)
The Web Service Description Language is used to describe Web Services ubiquitously. Tools reading WSDL documents make it easy to implement or invoke a service. Usually it is not neccessary for programmers to read WSDL in order to create or consume a service. On the other hand WSDL is an essential technology for SOA experts. They write guidelines and rules for WSDL and they have to do quality assureance for WSDL documents and generators. This online article explains how to read a WSDL document using the description of a free Web Service for banking codes. The WSDL is analyzed step by step and transformed into a diagram showing the structure of WSDL.
EIP Patterns using BPEL (24.03.)
In this new series of online articleswe are describing the realization of Enterprise Integration Patterns using the Business Process Execution Language. The first article explains how to implement a XPath Splitter using Glassfish ESB, Netbeans and BPEL.
Glassfish ESB versus Servicemix (24.03.)
This new version of of our online article compares Glassfish ESB v2 GA and Apache ServiceMix 3.3.
Both ESB products are supporting the JBI standard but besides that they are very different.
REST Introduction (18.02.)
Read the translation of an introductory article about the REST architecture. The article uses a lot of examples and diagrams to illustrate the ideas behind RESTful Web Services.
SOAP Monitor (02.02.)
To develop Web Services you have to look at the SOAP messages sometimes. A simple but convenient tool for monitoring SOAP messages is Membrane SOAP monitor. A release of the free tool is available for download now.
Figure:
Web Services with Groovy and JAX-WS (22.12.)
Due to the strong integration in Java, Java libraries and servers can easily integrated in Groovy scripts. This article describes how web services can be implemented with Groovy and JAX-WS.
Registry for Public Web Services (27.10.)
Lookup public Web Services that can be used free of charge at our SOAP Service Registry. The services can be tested using the intergrated generic SOAP Client. It is also possible to register new SOAP services into the directory of services.