Testing Web Services

Admin Console enables you to test web services and diagnose problems.

To test a web service with Admin Console, select Web Services > web-service-name | General, then click the Test button. For JAX-WS 2.0–compliant web services, Application Server generates a test page when a JAX-WS 2.0 web service is deployed. You can launch the test web page from Admin Console to easily verify a web service's operation without writing a client application.

The automatically-generated test page contains a form that enables you to invoke all the web service's methods and display the SOAP messages for each method invocation. The test page also contains a link that displays the WSDL file returned from the sever instance; that is, the runtime version of the WSDL file, not the packaged version.