We have a large system of physical devices which all run a web service for control and a central control system for controlling these devices. I need to make a substitute for such a physical device in order to test the controlling unit. How will I go about running more than one instance of a test device on a single computer. The protocol used in SOAP with a wsdl written in stone. In addition to the webservice each test device needs a webserver to monitor state and generating events.
My first approach is to embed jetty and use axis2 for webservices, but I am having some trouble making that fly. I managed to get the axis2 SimpleHttpServer working with a webservice, but as far as I can tell SimpleHttpServer will not let me run Servlets or let alone wars. Is there a better approach I am missing?
I considered making a proxy server listening on any number of ports and forwarding the request to a webservice to a central webservice with an additional paramater saying which port the request originated from, but since the wsdl is writting in stone I can not pass this paramater along.
EDIT: I am using Netbeans to generate a webservice for me. Works as a charm but not enough for my project. For some reason wsimport chokes on the wsdl. I don’t understand how Netbeans can deploy to the bundled Glassfish server, but if I drop the generated dist/my-project.war into tomcat the webservice doesn’t work. Much less show up in web.xml. What am I missing?
Ok I’ve figured out a solution. I can use Glassfish. Then I deploy the same webapp multiple times under different names. Then I have a small proxy made in glassfish which listens on a number of ports and then translates the request to one of the instances running i glassfish.