Daily Archives: September 18, 2004

MindReef SoapScope v4 is out

Tools

I just checked my link on the previous post to Mindreef’s site, and was suprised to see that the version just changed from 3.0 to 4.0 since I looked at the site last week. Copying & pasting a list of new features as I have not had time to look more carefully yet!

  • SOAPscope Workspace: Gather Web services resources for a particular test or problem. Focus on the relevant resources viewing, testing, analyzing and annotating within the workspace environment.
  • SOAPscope Packaging: Workspaces may be saved to a package file for archival and sharing. Use Packaging to create artifacts of your testing process or capture and share problems between customers, support, operations, test, and development.
  • WSDL Closures: WSDL documents may reference other documents, which may also reference documents. The complete hierarchy is called a WSDL closure. SOAPscope 4.0 is the first tool that can compare, analyze or graphically view a WSDL closure.
  • Testing Secure Services: WSDL Invoke and Message Resend can now utilize SSL client certificates for mutual authentication. WS-Security compliant user and password header info can be included when invoking or resending messages.
  • Support for New Standards and Technologies: Industries first product to support test against the newest WS-I standards including the WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 and WS-I Attachments Profile 1.0. Attachments support includes features to test, debug and support services that employ SwA/MIME attachments.
  • Eclipse 2.x/3.0 Plug-in Support: Use SOAPscope directly within the popular Eclipse IDE without having to leave the IDE. New support for Eclipse 2.x makes the plugin available to a broader audience.
  • Improved Scalability: As the sophistication of Web Services increases customer demands on SOAPscope are scaling as well. Release 4.0 is tuned for better thoughput, memory utilization, reliability and performace to meet the growing demands of our customers.

Michele Leroux Bustamante at Vermont.NET this Monday

dotNET

Very excited to have Michele coming to Vermont to speak to Vermont.NET on Monday. Luckily she comes in Sunday night, and the leaves are already turning, so I plan to show off a bit of our beautiful little state to her before she heads right back to Boston as she has an 8:30 am talk at  SD East in Boston on Tuesday morning. Although we had planned a more leisurely Vermont trip for Michele, her hectic schedule has put her in the tough position of having to do a lot of travelling in a short amount of time that I do not envy and that I am so grateful she is doing. She is also speaking at the NH .NET Group on Thursday.

Michele lives in California, so this is a long trip for her. Her Vermont.NET and NHDNUG talks are both thanks to INETA.

At Vermont.NET, Michele will be doing a talk on leveraging HTTP Handlers and SOAP extensions to extend ASP.NET. I saw part of this when she did it for a WebCast in the early spring and have been very much looking forward to having her do it for Vermont.NET (and seeing the rest of it myself, as well). 

We are also fortunate to have a license of MindReef’s SoapScope to raffle off at the meeting, thanks to Scott Gagnon of MindReef.