"richard.opalka(a)jboss.com" wrote : "alessio.soldano(a)jboss.com" wrote : I'm thinking about explaining the need for tools like | | TCP-Mon | | http://ws.apache.org/commons/tcpmon/ | | or Lms | | http://www.javalinuxlabs.org/lms/index.html | Isn't Wireshark (initially Ethereal) suffiecient enough? Well, Ethereal is fine, however I see two points where more specialized tools might be better: - it's a general purpose "sniffer" that means you have to configure a lot of filters and so on to acually capture the soap communication you're looking for and if you have long conversations this might be painful - it requires X (assuming you're on a *nix system). Immagine you're the service provider and need to check messages coming from a customer. Your only option is to run Ethereal on the server running the WS (ok, or on any other host along the route, but this doesn't change a lot), but servers often do not have a graphic subsystem like X installed. I'm not saying it can't be done, but that it might be not so easy ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4095986#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...