Setup tcp monitor

Question

Hi,
a question on another topic. I'm able to run TCP Monitor on AXIS but I dont know how to configure my web service to use it??!! What do I have to put in my code to use this.
On a wider note whats the best way to trouble shoot web services?
Cheers.

Answer 1

I'm afraid I can't help much, since I don't use Axis all that often (besides TCPMon, funnily enough). However, the following may help - it may not of course, but...
You shouldn't need to change your server. My steps are:
Start tcpmon. You want to create a new listener with:
- Target port is whatever port Axis is listening on. This is probably 8080 or something.
- Listen port is any free port. Let's say that's 7070.
Then, you need to alter your client (probably in the code somehow) to send its requests to port 7070, rather than port 8080. In my command-line client written with the Axis 1.2 libraries, I do this with:
        final String REMOTE_ENDPOINT_URL = "http://Helga:7070/airline/airline-ejb/BookingServiceEndpoint";
        BookingServiceLocator bsl = new BookingServiceLocator();
        BookingServiceEndpoint bse = bsl.getBookingServiceEndpointPort(new URL(REMOTE_ENDPOINT_URL));I then use 'bse' to invoke the service. This should be all you need to do.
HTH,
-Tim