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Soap - How to...

The How to... sections in this manual go into more detail about a specific subject in a task oriented way, and are generally sequential in nature. Tasks may build upon previous ones and may also use their data (or files) further on in the section.

In this SOAP - How to... section you will learn how to:
·Send and receive SOAP requests using the SOAP debugger  
·Set breakpoints for sending and receiving SOAP requests  
·Edit an incorrect SOAP request before sending it on to the web service  


When developing an application that accesses data from a web service and does further data processing, something might happen that you don't expect. Wouldn't it be great to be able to see and edit the data that is actually transmitted?

This is where XML Spy SOAP debugger comes in. It works as a proxy server between your client and the web service. The debugger functionality goes a lot deeper than a normal trace utility that only stores every call's Request and Response.

XML Spy SOAP debugger allows you to set breakpoints for every Request and Response message and even define Conditional breakpoints via XPath expressions.

SOAP debugger supports:
·Stepping through SOAP requests and responses  
·Modification of the SOAP requests and responses and  
·Forwarding of modified requests to the client or server.  

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