SOAP UI vs POSTMAN

Sometimes SOAP UI displays objects also as arrays for JSON message, better to use Postman tool from google apps which is the best app for JSON or REST API testing.

SOAP based webservice

1) Create new application.
2)New soap based message model with existing wsdl
3)new message flow
4)drag the wsdl onto the message flow edit on the new flow
5)this gives a skeleton etc. then write business transformation, routing logic's etc.

How to create a SOAP Action Policy

Adding a SOAP action policy

A user agent can require that the contents of the HTTP SOAPAction request header field be supplied.

About this task

The HTTP header contains the SOAP action (a URI that identifies the intent of the SOAP HTTP request). If the header contains the SoapAction: http://example.org/add header, the URI of http://example.org/add is the value.

Procedure

1. In the search field, enter User Agent.
2. From the search results, click User Agent.
3. Click the name of a user agent configuration.
4. Click the Soap-Action Policy tab.
5. Add a policy.
   1. Click Add.
   2. In the URL Matching Expression field, enter a shell-style expression to be the matching pattern for the URL set.
   3. In the Soap Action field, enter the URI of the SOAP action.
   4. Click Apply.
6. Optional: Repeat the previous step to add another policy.
7. Click Apply to save the changes to the running configuration.
8. Optional: Click Save Configuration to save the changes to the persisted configuration

SOA IIB Key Points

  IIB or WMB runtime uses the ports as below by default..

1)HTTP nodes use IIB NODE level ports where http connector starts with 7080 and https connector starts with 7083...

2)SOAP nodes use embedded/IBM integration server/EG level ports where http uses withing the ragne 7800 to 7842 and https uses from 7843 to 7884 etc..