[jbossws-dev] [Design of JBoss Web Services] - Re: [Productivity] Level 3 - Transition / staging

[alessio.soldano@jboss.com]

"richard.opalka at jboss.com" wrote : "alessio.soldano at 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 ;-)

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