FW: Web Services Validation Tools Open Source Project at Eclipse

["Matthew J. Dovey" <matthew.dovey@oucs.ox.ac.uk>]

Some possible tools for validating the UDDI WSDL.

Matthew 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-ws-desc-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:www-ws-desc-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Ryman
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:50 PM
> To: www-ws-desc@w3.org
> Subject: Web Services Validation Tools Open Source Project at Eclipse
> 
> 
> In the March 26 telecon [1], we discussed creating a WSDL 1.2 
> Validator. I suggested we create an Open Source project at 
> Eclipse to do this. The Web Services Validation Tools Project 
> [2] has now been created and I invite all interested people 
> to contribute. Start by downloading the code and trying out 
> its capabilities. All discussion of the code should be done 
> at Eclipse. 
> 
> The project has been seeded by BeaconIT, Parasoft, and IBM. 
> The contributed code includes WS-I Test Tools, a WSDL 1.1 
> Validator, and integration of these tools into the Eclipse 
> IDE. WS-I members will continue work on this code at Eclipse. 
> The tools can be run from the command line or the IDE. I 
> think we should also develop Ant tasks. 
> 
> We can use the WSDL 1.1 Validator as a starting point, 
> although my current thinking is to create a new WSDL 1.2 
> object model that closely follows the Abstract Model in the 
> WSDL 1.2 spec. 
> 
> Could David Booth please add a link from the W3C Web site to 
> this project? 
> 
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-desc/2003Mar/0054.html 
> [2] http://www.eclipse.org/wsvt/ 
> 
> Arthur Ryman
>