What is SOAP Monitor from jboss?

[teenQ]

Hi,

I dont know whether I am in right section or not. So please forgive me for this.
I heard this term "SOAP Monitor form JBOSS" but I am really curious to know about it.
I know that Jboss must be some company or like that but what is SOAP Monitor.
Please shed some light on this noob.

Thanks in advance.

[Grundy]

Soap Monitor
Membrane SOAP Monitor is a free Web Services development tool for inspecting and manipulating SOAP messages. It acts as a SOAP proxy between a consumer and a producer. SOAP messages can be intercepted, viewed and modified.

SOAP Monitor functions very similarly like a Tcp Monitor. Whereas Tcp Monitor is used to intercept Http Request and Http Response messages, SOAP Monitor is used to track the SOAP Request and SOAP Response Messages. SOAP Monitor is implemented as a Handler and by default it is not enabled for all the Web Services. If we want to enable SOAP Monitor Handler for both Request and Response SOAP messages, then add the following entry in the deployment descriptor file for the Web Service.

<deployment xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
    xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">

    <service name="SomeService" provider="java:RPC">

    <requestFlow>
        <handler type="soapmonitor"/>
    </requestFlow>

    <responseFlow>
        <handler type="soapmonitor"/>
    </responseFlow>

    <parameter name="className" value="SomeService"/>
        <parameter name="allowedMethods" value="*"/>
    </service>

</deployment>

Now, whenever, you request for a Web Service, the Soap Monitor will track the Request and Response from the Web Service and will display the Xml Request and Xml Response content in the UI.

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