Spring WS 2.0: New Integration Test Support

Spring WS 2.0 introduced a new integration testing module, spring-ws-test, which provides a fluent API for testing both the client- and server-side of Web service. In my previous article on Spring WS 2.0 and SOAP-based Web services , I explored some of the new features introduced in the 2.0 release. In this installment, I'll dive into spring-ws-test. In the previous article, we exposed a SOAP Web service endpoint (using @Endpoint annotation) on the server, but we did not write the client side. The client side can be written using Spring WS, but it is not mandatory as you can generate client-side code from WSDL using any other framework such as Axis. The advantages of using Spring WS to write client code are:

1. Spring WS provides a lightweight alternative that does not need a WSDL contract to work. This means that you are free from any code generation (i.e. generating client code from WSDL).
2. Spring WS requires no dependency on any other Web service framework.

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