Introduction

SO-Aware, allows you to create unit tests for WCF SOAP, and WCF REST based web services. These tests can be executed using the standard web based user interface that SO-Aware provides. The tests can also be executed using a PowerShell script. There is also a automated windows service that runs that can schedule a test to run every so often. The results of these tests are stored inside the SO-Aware repository.

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SO-Aware is once again on top of the most favorites list of SOA Developer/Architects. SO-Aware is featured in this quarter's popular Microsoft BizTalk Magazine called BizTalk HotRod. We were requested to do a writeup on SO-Aware, and I must say it is a very pleasant approach to what SO-Aware is, how it works and etc. You can find the article and magazine here. or you can download it from our resources page here.

As a quick start, for those that don't know, SO-Aware is a service metadata repository, very similar to UDDI, except without the complexity, all based on a REST-ful architecture. If you do know, you can skip to Monitoring a BizTalk WCF Receive Location section.

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As a quick start, for those that don't know, SO-Aware is a service metadata repository, very similar to UDDI, except without the complexity, all based on a REST-ful architecture.

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As a quick start, for those that don’t know, SO-Aware is a service metadata repository, very similar to UDDI, except without the complexity, all based on a REST-ful architecture. If you do know, you can skip to using SO-Aware with BizTalk 2010 and ESB 2.1 section. It supports registry of SOAP, REST, and OData based services, written using Microsoft’s WCF technology stack, as well and Java based web services. However, that’s not all.

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As a quick start, for those that don’t know, SO-Aware is a service metadata repository, very similar to UDDI, except without the complexity, all based on a REST-ful architecture. If you do know you can skip to the explanation of how it works, or skip to the how to section. It supports registry of SOAP, REST, and OData based services, written using Microsoft’s WCF technology stack, as well and Java based web services. However, that’s not all.

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In my last post we discussed what was Web Service Discovery, and how it's two design patterns provide us with different implementations, such as UDDI, SO-Aware, and WCF 4.0 Discovery. In this post we will discuss WCF 4.0 Discovery, and how SO-Aware handles the two modes of WCF Discovery.

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Just uploaded a refresh of SO-Aware SDK Samples and Utilities:

SDK Samples Include:

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Introduction

Web services have been around for over 10 years now in some form or fashion. What this means is that there are millions of services in existence, on the public internet as well as your private network, and they mostly all lack at least one thing in common, discovery. Discovery is the mechanism by which web services and clients can be made aware of other web services and clients on a network. Discovery comes in two basic designs.

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Steps

SO-Aware was created using the .Net 3.5 framework. To support WCF 4.0 we must tell the Web Server hosting SO-Aware to use ASP.Net 4.0, and tell ASP.NET to recompile the application using the.Net 4.0 assemblies. One of the nice features about ASP.NET is that it can dynamically recompile your web application upon startup. To set this up open IIS Manager and navigate to your Application pool that runs SO-Aware:

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With the creation of SO-Aware ( http://www.tellagostudios.com ) , a Service Metadata Repository that can do all sorts of things, comes the added benefit of using Microsoft's Windows PowerShell.

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