Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Mindreef Connects Development, Testing, Support For Agile SOAs
Mindreef Inc announced the availability of Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0, the
company's flagship Web Services Diagnostics System. SOAPscope is the first
product that allows for the complete capture and assembly of all evidence
related to a Web services problem. With Version 4.0, SOAPscope is now the
first to enable seamless sharing of these artifacts between developers,
testers, operations and support teams -- expediting the problem solving
process and overcoming "finger pointing" delays. SOAPscope 4.0 also offers a
number of significant new features including support for secure Web services
using SSL certificates, and the industry's first diagnostic support for the
newly released WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0.
"SOAPscope is evolving as Web services are evolving. Now that many companies
have deployed Web services and are building more complex applications, it is
important to move beyond point-to-point development and testing diagnostics
and involve support and operations in the problem solving process," said Mark
Ericson, co-founder and CTO of Mindreef. "This team lifecycle approach to
diagnostics is the future for delivering agile SOAs."
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) include loosely-coupled collections of
Web services. Solving problems that occur between these services is a process
that involves multiple parties, both within and potentially outside of the
organization's firewall. SOAPscope 4.0 introduces two new important concepts
that advance the role of diagnostics for SOAs: "Workspace" creates a place to
easily collect and organize problem data, while "Packaging" is the first file
format to enable clear and consistent sharing of the problem data with the
appropriate specialist. SOAPscope's diagnostic tools (debugging, testing,
tuning) then allow the specialist to operate on the problem data and quickly
solve the problem.
"SOAPscope has been invaluable in testing and diagnosing our enterprise scale
Web services," said Simon Fell, senior member of technical staff at
salesforce.com and author of PocketSOAP. "The new Packaging feature in
SOAPscope 4.0 is an excellent way to support customers and collaborate as a
team. A must have for every WS-Developer."
Mindreef SOAPscope 4.0
SOAPscope 4.0 is a Web services diagnostics system for examining, debugging,
testing, tuning and supporting Web services. Workspace makes it very easy to
gather WSDL and relevant SOAP messages and all other artifacts related to a
problem. Hidden elements like WSDL import files and SwA/MIME attachments to
SOAP messages are automatically included. Once the artifacts are gathered, the
Workspace can be exported and emailed to the developer. Developers import the
artifacts into their Workspace, where the problem can be reproduced using
SOAPscope's Message Resend or WSDL Invoke features, or diagnosed with
SOAPscope tools.
New features include:
- SOAPscope Workspace: Gather Web services resources for a particular test or
problem. Focus on the relevant resources viewing, testing, analyzing and
annotating within the workspace environment.
- SOAPscope Packaging: Workspaces may be saved to a package file for archival
and sharing. Use Packaging to create artifacts of your testing process or
capture and share problems between customers, support, operations, test and
development.
- WSDL Closures: WSDL documents may reference other documents, which may also
reference documents. The complete hierarchy is called a WSDL closure.
SOAPscope 4.0 is the first tool that can compare, analyze or graphically view
a WSDL closure.
- Testing Secure Services: WSDL Invoke and Message Resend now utilize SSL
client certificates for mutual authentication. WS-Security compliant user and
password header info can be included when invoking or resending messages.
- Support for New Standards and Technologies: Industry's first product to
support testing against the newest WS-I standards including the WS-I Basic
Profile 1.1 and WS-I Attachments Profile Version 1.0. Attachment support
includes features to test, debug and support services that include SwA/MIME
attachments,.
- Eclipse 2.x/3.0 Plug-in support: Use SOAPscope directly within the popular
Eclipse IDE without having to leave the IDE. New support for Eclipse 2.x makes
the plug-in available to a broader audience.
- Improved Scalability: As the sophistication of Web Services is increasing,
customer demands on SOAPscope are scaling as well. Release 4.0 is tuned for
better throughput, memory utilization, scalability, reliability and
performance.
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