About this blog
In this blog I will keep you informed about issues I encounter at my job as Oracle J2EE Consultant. Since I am specialized in the Oracle J2EE toolstack and various open source frameworks and very interested in web services and SOA, it will mostly concern these tools/ frameworks/ technics. I hope you enjoy reading the blogs and they may help you in your job some way.
Hi Pascal,
I am very new to soapUI testing tool. In order to learn using soapUI, I tried to load WSDL (from your example) to soapUI2.0.2 to run some simple requests.
http://localhost:8080/XFireTest/services/BookService?wsdl
But I can’t run it. After loading WSDL, the tool keeps on running and running with small window “Loading WSDL …”. I have to cancel it many times. If I loaded another WSDL of our project, I got the error messages, like “Error importing wsdl”.
I am learning soapUI steps by steps now. So, please advise your instructions.
Thanks a lot for your help.
TD
Hi TD,
Good choice to learn a bit about SoapUI because it really makes your life as WebService developer easier.
About the problem of loading the WSDL: what happens if you put the url in a webbrowser? Do you get the WSDL in that case? If you do, you might want to check if you have some proxy or firewall on your machine that is blocking Soap UI. Also you can configure a proxy in SoapUI if you need one.
Let me know if that helped.
Hi Pascal,
Thanks a lot for your notes.
I loaded this URL to browser http://localhost:8080/XFireTest/services/BookService.wsdl
and got the error message “The page cannot be displayed”.
So, like you said, maybe, I have problem with proxy or firewall setting. In order to solve that, I am reading the User Guide now. As I told you, I am very new to this testing method. I would like to try your example in any ways because that one is good start for myself. Then, I can move to another step by sending the request with parameter and getting expected results from response through web service. Hope you stay on-line and we can discuss more … because our group just starts this testing approach. Everything is new.
Best regards,
TD
Hi Tahn,
Thx for you reply. It is nice to hear that my blog is helping other people in their job.
But please keep in mind writing this blog is just a hobby, next to my job and other hobbies. So, as long as the question are clear and I am able to answer them quickly I can and will be of assistance.
But on the other hand, you can always post your question, because maybe someone else is able to answer them, in case I don’t find the time to answer them!
Grtz,
Pascal
Hi Pascal, I seem to have the same problem with soapui tool. I am inside a firewall and I can access the url from my browser with proxy settings and get back the wsdl. However, when I use soapui tool from inside the firewall with the proxy settings all included, I see the same error as Thanh has decribed…keep saying loading definition but nothing happens. I know it is something to do with the firewall because when I tried the same from outside the firewall, I seem to load the wsdl and get back response also. Any suggestions on what should be done to get soapui to work inside the firewall? Thanks a bunch!
JR
Hi Jasmine,
I am sorry but I’m afraid I cannot help you with this one. Like you said it probably has something to do with the firewall, but I am no expert on this. But maybe someone else who reads this can help you with it.