As we all know, there are times when things never seem to work correctly. While we can't eliminate all problems, we can help you to determine their cause; at least for problems with Apache SOAP.
In order to debug problems with Apache SOAP, it's often useful to see the SOAP messages which are travelling back and forth between the client and the server. To make that task a little easier, we have included a TCP tunnel/monitor tool to help debug SOAP (as well as other TCP-based protocols.) The GUI-based tool will open a port on the machine upon which it was started, and will tunnel traffic to a remote host/port combination. Inside the tool's GUI, you will see two windows which show data originating from the client and from the server.
To start the tool up, execute:
java org.apache.soap.util.net.TcpTunnelGui listenport tunnelhost tunnelport
where listenport is the port that you want the tool to listen on (i.e. the port which you will send your SOAP messages to), tunnelhost is the hostname of the SOAP server, and tunnelport is the port that the SOAP server is running on.
Last updated 5/20/2001 by Bill Nagy <nagy@watson.ibm.com>.