"The UltraESB environment was a much cleaner solution for putting together the mock services, particularly with the IntelliJ IDE for writing the code" - User

Read the Original Comment from Jim

"Note that the leading tool for Web Services testing is SoapUI. While this product provides some powerful support for Soap based mock services, its support for REST based mock services is almost non-existent (basically, just setting up a separate test case for each endpoint and sending a file). The UltraESB environment was a much cleaner solution for putting together the mock services, particularly with the IntelliJ IDE for writing the code. I could load the payload, read it into a string, manipulate it, the write it back out to the payload. The learning curve was very minimal. Great job!"

---

The UltraESB recently started supporting RESTful JSON Data Services more information on the JSON support is available from http://jsonesb.org

RESTful Proxy Services with the Open Source UltraESB

Many ESBs does not natively support REST, and may try to map or convert native REST calls into SOAP models. The UltraESB has been designed to support many different message formats natively, over multiple transports.

It supports all HTTP methods such as GET, PUT, DELETE, POST, OPTIONS, etc, and can even be extended to support other methods as well if required. By support both HTTP and HTTP, and HTTP authentication mechanisms such as Basic authentication, Digest authentication, Amazon AWS S3 Authentication and NTLM authentication, it can support any payload (XML, Text, Binary etc) extremely well, and handle thousands of concurrent connections with a few worker threads due to its ability to use Zero-copy proxying and Java Non-Blocking IO.

The UltraESB is possibly the fastest ESB around, and is available under the OSI approved AGPL License, as well as a Zero Dollar commercial license without any AGPL/GPL licensed artifacts.

The UltraESB distribution is around 30MB - including all documentation, samples and many optional libraries used to demonstrate the samples, and runs on both Windows and Linux/Unix environments, although other platforms that support JDK 1.6 and above maybe supported as well.

To get started with REST, it is suggested that the reader first follow the sample described here that shows the main HTTP methods used in REST being invoked, against a proxy service deployed on the UltraESB. The configuration forwards these requests to a RESTful service implemented with the RESTEasy framework from JBoss.

Check out the UltraESB samples index for more advanced examples, such as those demonstrating JTA XA transactions, mock services and using the UltraESB as a security gateway for REST services!