On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Skellington <[email protected]> wrote:
> This leads me to my question, In a normal app (non-webservice) I would > just turn on the debug stuff and look at the debug data to see what is > going on and where some of the performance issues were. But with a > SOAP web service it's not possible. Does anyone know of a way to > profile a web service (mywebservice.cfc) to get a better idea of whats > really going on? > There are good monitoring tools for both Java processes as well as Tomcat itself that would give you a lot of information about things like memory utilization, CPU utilization, etc., not to mention checking things at the operating system level. VisualVM ships with the JDK: https://visualvm.dev.java.net/ Lambda Probe monitors Tomcat 6.x and below (doesn't work on Tomcat 7 yet): http://www.lambdaprobe.org/d/index.htm I guess the real question is what you mean by "what's really going on?" If you're wanting to profile your *code* then some simple timings and cflog statements would go a long way toward telling you what may be running slowly. If it gets to the point of you wanting to debug your code more directly, you could use the OpenBD debugger ( http://wiki.openbluedragon.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Debugger), or you could put the OpenBD source code into an Eclipse project along with your application's code, which would allow you to debug your CFML code using the Java debugger in Eclipse as it executes in the engine. The other thing to consider is writing a simple CFML page that leverages the web service CFC just as a CFC, since as far as what the code is doing it won't matter if that's being done over SOAP or not, unless you suspect that network latency, size of request/response, etc. are the culprits. For troubleshooting that side of things, I'd suggest wireshark ( http://www.wireshark.org/) or Firebug (http://getfirebug.com/) since that would let you see the requests and responses in their raw formats. You can also test the web service using SoapUI (http://www.soapui.org/), which is a Java application that you can point to a WSDL and have it generate sample SOAP requests for you. Kind of a rambling response but I hope that gives you some ideas. As you can tell there are lots of options depending on what you want to do. If you have more information about specifically what you'd like to look into please follow up and we can focus in on more specifics. -- Matthew Woodward [email protected] http://blog.mattwoodward.com identi.ca / Twitter: @mpwoodward Please do not send me proprietary file formats such as Word, PowerPoint, etc. as attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
