To provide support for HTTP-based communications and communicate
with Web Services, you must configure and run IBM® Rational® Integration Tester by
using the HTTP transport and SOAP message formatters.
To test other HTTP communications that are not Web Services, such as REST APIs, see HTTP testing.
The following topics discuss the configuration and use of HTTP and Web Services technologies in
Rational Integration Tester.
Web services
The Web services Architecture group at the W3C is defined
as follows
WSDL documents
A Web Services Description Language (WSDL) document is
a schema that describes a web service, including information on how
to locate that service and what operations are supported. Within IBM Rational Integration Tester,
a WSDL document enables users to construct a SOAP message that can
be sent to a web service and to construct a template message in order
to validate replies from web services.
Web services security actions IBM Rational Integration Tester supports
the use of one or more security actions that can be layered on top
of one another in an outgoing SOAP message.