"The UltraESB environment was a much cleaner solution for putting together the mock services, particularly with the IntelliJ IDE for writing the code"

Read the Original Comment from Jim

"Note that the leading tool for Web Services testing is SoapUI. While this product provides some powerful support for Soap based mock services, its support for REST based mock services is almost non-existent (basically, just setting up a separate test case for each endpoint and sending a file). The UltraESB environment was a much cleaner solution for putting together the mock services, particularly with the IntelliJ IDE for writing the code. I could load the payload, read it into a string, manipulate it, the write it back out to the payload. The learning curve was very minimal. Great job!"

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The UltraESB recently started supporting RESTful JSON Data Services more information on the JSON support is available from http://jsonesb.org

Mock Services - be it either REST, SOAP or even any other!

The UltraESB allows the creation of Mock Services for almost any protocol over multiple transports. Thus you can mock REST, SOAP, Hessian, or even JMS, Email or File/FTP related services, or even other such services easily.

The article "Mock RESTfully with the UltraESB" shows how one may write Mock services for REST methods GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.. The mock service implementation can be written as Java as a class, code fragment or a Spring bean, or as any JSR 233 Scripting language code. However, you do NOT need to compile, bundle, deploy any of these - as the UltraESB does all that automatically! Just checkout the sample and see how a dozen lines of configuration can simplify your tasks!

The AdroitLogic ToolBox will allow one to test the mock services, as well as any other backend services. It includes sample RESTservices, a RFC 2616 compliant HTTP/S client that supports basic and digest authentication and 2-way SSL in addition to supporting GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, HEAD and OPTIONS for REST.