SoapKnox Web services Management Tool version beta2

[SP <sp...@soapknox.com>]

Hi,

I am releasing the beta2 version of SoapKnox Web Services Management tool.
This is an out of the box installation. The download comes with Axis-1.0,
Tomcat-4.0.4 and SoapKnox Web Services Management pre-configured and
integrated into one peice. It is very easy to set up. With a few simple
steps you will have it up and running. You can download it at
http://www.soapknox.com or http://www.soapknox.com/soapknox.zip and use it
for free.

New features in beta2 include:

https or SSL support: You can set up the system to use https for secure
login and also use SSL for Web services. The download comes with
pre-configured self-signed certificate for you to test and use SSL right out
of the box. It also contains a sample code that uses SSL for invoking a Web
service. There is also a how-to documentation on creating your own
self-signed certificate using keytool. (you need to download Sun's Java
Secure Socket Extension - JSSE to use htpps).

Gateway or Proxy service: You can create a Web service to act as a gateway
or a proxy service to a remote service. You can use this feature in two
ways: a) you can have this service to act as a gateway and do your
authentication, authorization, auditing, logging etc. (this is all done by
SoapKnox) at the gateway for the remote service and/or b) you can use this
proxy service to act as a proxy client to invoke services and generate
service response time or service performance statistics of the remote
service. Note that the remote service need not be an Axis Web service.

Deploy/Undeploy a service: You can submit a WSDD file to Axis for processing
through the webapp GUI. You can also undeploy a service through the GUI.

Auto-subscribe or pre-approval: You can now specify a Web service to have
auto-subscribe or pre-approval required feature. In auto-subscribe mode a
user can subsribe a service and start using it immediately. In pre-approval
required mode the user request for subscription is routed to the
administrator for approval. The user can use the service only after the
administrator has approved the request for subscription.

Please send any questions or comments to comments@soapknox.com

Thanks,
SP

-----Original Message-----
From: SP [mailto:sp@soapknox.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:17 PM
To: axis-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: Web services Management Tool for Axis


Hi,

I have developed a sort of Web services Management tool for Apache Axis. I
am releasing a beta1 version of it. You can download it at
http://www.soapknox.com or http://www.soapknox.com/soapknox.zip and use it
for free.

The Web services management contains two parts 1) a web app GUI to manage
and administer users and Web services and also you can perform service
performance, service statistics, service scalability analysis etc. and 2) a
set of handlers to be used during run-time.

The main features/funcitonalities are:

No need to change your developed Web services code - use our handlers and
deploy them through your deploy.wsdd file (thanks to axis' architecture).

Manage your Web services though a web GUI.

Supports username/password authentication. Future support will include SSL,
XML Signature, XML Encryption and WS-Security.

Role-based Web services access and Web services management.

ServiceMetrics - Provides service performance statistics and service metrics
data. View graph of service response time.

Service Scalability Analysis - Provides you with a tool to do service
scalability analysis. Does statistical linear regression analysis to
calculate how service response time is varying under different load
conditions. View graph of service response time distribution.

Web enabled GUI to manage users, user roles, Web service and Web service
subscription.

Subscription - Users or service consumers can use web enabled GUI to
subscribe/unsubscribe Web services.

Use it in production to gather real life production service statistics or to
test service performance and do scalability analysis in test environment.

Get user activity log information.

Switch a service from live to test mode without undeploying it.

The applcation requires Oracle database. Since all the data is stored in the
database, you can get data and analyze whenever you want.

Hope you will find it useful. You can send comments to comments@soapknox.com

Thanks,

SP