Fronsetia

Contents:

• Description
• Screenshots
• Download
• Installing the software
• Compatibility
• Reporting issues
• My projects on SourceForge
• My other software
• Contact information
• Page information

Description

Fronsetia (Free Online Service Testing Application) is a Java web application that allows testing webservices.

Fronsetia allows you to:

• read WSDL definitions and provides sample XML data for each operation, if available,
• send customised requests to the webservice,
• override or remove the standard HTTP headers from the request to be sent,
• set any other HTTP header you wish,
• set the protocol name and version,
• use protocol methods other than the regular POST,
• set the sent Content-Type,
• authenticate to the webservice,
• use a proxy and authenticate to the proxy,
• accept any TLS/SSL certificate (useful for test environments),
• manually set the SOAP content (prologue, headers, body and the XML before them, after them and in between),
• set the expected character set of the request,
• view the SOAP response,
• view the response's HTTP code and status line,
• view the response's HTTP headers,
• verify if there was a SOAP Fault in the response,
• pretty-print the response by splitting it after closing tags.

You can think of Fronsetia as a simple version of SoapUI on the web, or a simple and free and open-source version of the wls_utc utility (but less powerful - for example, it doesn't interpret the service's schema to provide separate fields for various parameters).

Features:

• supports Web Services Description Language (WSDL),
• supports Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP),
• supports Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),
• supports HTTP Authentication,
• supports the same versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) as the server the application will be running on,
• supports HTTP Proxying,
• supports Jakarta EE (Java EE) version 10 (modern Jakarta EE application servers)
• portable and system-independent.

You can also read the Fronsetia wiki.

Features not currently supported:

• REST webservices and general HTTP testing.

Fronsetia was previously called SOAPServiceTester.

Screenshots of Fronsetia

Screenshots are available on the SourceForge project page.

Download Fronsetia

Current version is 1.1.
Download this at SourceForge.

Fronsetia release file feed

Installing the software

The most up-to-date documentation can be found in the package itself.
You can also read the Fronsetia wiki.

Initial steps - most are one-time

If you already have a JDK (Java Development Kit) and a Java application server installed and you've downloaded or built a self-contained package with all the required libraries inside (the default), you can skip this step.

To install the requirements:

1. Install a Java Development Kit,
2. Install a chosen Java Enterprise application server or a so-called servlet container,
3. Add the JAR files listed in the pom.xml file in the Fronsetia package in the versions given there (and their dependencies) to your server's CLASSPATH. The exact location depends on your server. Examples:
   • Apache Tomcat: apache-tomcat-x.y.z/lib,
   • Eclipse Jetty: perhaps $JETTY_BASE/webapps, but it seems better to build a self-contained WAR file,
   • WildFly: wildfly-x.y.z/standalone/lib/
   • Eclipse GlassFish: glassfishX/glassfish/domains/<domain name>/lib/
4. Restart the server after installing the JAR libraries.

Jakarta EE / JavaEE server configuration

Consult your Jakarta EE / JavaEE server manual about how to configure your particular server for deployment of applications, like creating a domain (if needed), creating managed servers (if needed), etc.

For Eclipse Jetty, you need to create a base directory you will be deploying the application to. To do that (in bash syntax):

• unpack the Jetty distribution
• run cd jetty-home-x.y.z
• run export JETTY_HOME=`pwd`
• run mkdir base-dir (or use your chosen name)
• run cd base-dir
• run export JETTY_BASE=`pwd`
• run java -jar $JETTY_HOME/start.jar --add-module=server,http,deploy,webapp,jsp to create the server configuration
• run java -jar $JETTY_HOME/start.jar to start the server

Installation

To install Fronsetia, just deploy the fronsetia-web-1.1.war file on your application server. The exact method depends on your server. Examples:

• Apache Tomcat: copy the WAR file to apache-tomcat-x.y.z/webapps (or deploy manually using the server console),
• Eclipse Jetty: copy the WAR file to $JETTY_BASE/webapps,
• WildFly: copy the WAR file to wildfly-x.y.z/standalone/deployments (or deploy manually using the server console),
• Eclipse GlassFish: glassfishX/glassfish/domains/<domain name>/autodeploy/ (or deploy manually using the server console).

Compatibility

Various versions (in light/minimal or full/self-contained WAR files) of Fronsetia have successfully been used with the following servers in the following versions:

1. Apache Tomcat:
   • 6.0.x (6.0.29)
   • 9.0.x (9.0.76)
   • 10.1.x (10.1.12)
2. Eclipse Jetty:
   • 7.x (7.5.4.v20111024)
   • 10.x (10.0.15)
   • 11.x (11.0.15)
3. WildFly:
   • 10.x (10.1.0-servlet)
   • 13.x (13.0.0-servlet)
   • 14.x (14.0.1-servlet)
   • 22.x (22.0.0-servlet)
   • 26.x (26.1.0-servlet)
   • 28.x (28.0.1)
4. Eclipse GlassFish:
   • 7.x (7.0.5)

Other versions and servers may also work.

Reporting issues

Any defects or issues can be reported by e-mail or in the SourceForge project defect manager (in English).

Any improvement suggestions can be reported by e-mail or in the SourceForge project ticket manager (in English).

To report usage problems, include:

1. the Fronsetia version you're using, e.g. Fronsetia 1.1,
2. the JavaEE server or servlet container name and version you're using, e.g. Apache Tomcat 10.1.12,
3. a description of the problem that the software causes,
4. any error messages that are displayed or written to server log files,
5. precise steps for reproducing the error, if possible. This will make finding the problem easier,
6. the problematic WSDL file and all its includes (if it may have caused the problem),
7. any other information that you think could lead to solving the problem.

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My projects on SourceForge

• WipeFreeSpace - a program for cleaning of free space on filesystems
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• FMSec - a set of extensions to file managers that enable some security-related operations to be easily performed. The operations include:
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  • Mounting block devices and regular files using VeraCrypt,
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  • Wiping block devices (without removing them) using shred (the filesystem itself is destroyed too)
  • Wiping free space on filesystems on block devices or inside regular files using WipeFreeSpace,
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  FMSec consists of projects formerly known as KonqSec/Konq4Sec/Konq5Sec.
• Project Asmosis - a set of tools for assembly language programmers:
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• KeyParaStocX - is an extension for LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice and the old OpenOffice.org that searches for keywords in a text, changes their style and builds a Table of Contents for them (formerly: "PozeraczUstaw").
• Fronsetia - a web application that allows testing webservices (formerly: SOAPServiceTester).

The always-up-to-date list of my SourceForge projects is on my profile page on SourceForge.

My other software

• primary site - rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl/~bogdro/soft - down
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• third backup site (also available over HTTPS)
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• primary site with assembly tools - rudy.mif.pg.gda.pl/~bogdro/inne - down
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• second backup site with assembly tools - bogdro.fulba.com/inne - down
• third backup site with assembly tools (also available over HTTPS)
• fourth backup site with assembly tools (also available over HTTPS)

1. Kate/KWrite syntax highlighting for NASM/fasm

Contact information

Contact me: bogdro AT users . sourceforge . net (English accepted, just say '[SOFT]' in the title).

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