I am thinking about an approach for test-driven top-down development of web services. The steps are 1. create a message schema 2. generate an soap instance of that schema 3. generate the wsdl based on that schema 4. generate the server side code based on the wsdl and implement the logic 5. test the the service endpoint using the soap message 6. update the schema and repeat steps from 1 to 5
So far, I found a tool for testing a service endpoint using messages, which is web service console. And I am looking for a tool to generate soap message instances based on an xml schema, and also a tool to generate a wsdl based on the schema. Any experience related to these activities? Cheers, Don On 11/29/05, Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dong Liu wrote: > > Hi, developers, > > > > If there is a wsdl file for a service, how to check whether the wsdl > > file is consistent with its implementation on the server side? This > > problem is trivial for the wsdl's generated from the java code, but it > > is not for top-down development approaches. Any ideas? > > > > Write your tests against the WSDL, test them against the endpoint. > > > Realistically, interface consistency is not sufficient for a working > system; you need those tests anyway. > >
