Mocking XML services which are not webservices

Would you please elaborate your use case / what you mean by

some are just plain XML over HTTP (not SOAP nor REST)

It is services which are not webservices, and it is not wrapped into a SOAP (nor REST) message. To call these services, we just send an XML message through HTTP, and the response is also a simple XML message through HTTP.

Is xml sent as attachment or payload?

Would something like this work: http://www.soapui.org/Service-Mocking/m ... vices.html

Michael Giller
SmartBear Software

Actually these services are pretty similar to webservices except they don't use SOAP or any WS standard.

The request is a HTTP-POST which content is an XML message and the response is also an XML message.
Both messages are described in an XSD schema but there's no WSLD and since the messages are not compliant with SOAP there couldn't be any way to describe them in a WSDL.
Unfortunately these are legacy services that we cannot change.

I can use SoapUI to test them (even if I have to write the request myself instead of having SoapUI generating one with '?' values) and I can specify some assertions to validate the response content.
Now I would like to use SoapUI to create a dynamic Mock implementation for these services as I already do with the SOAP ones.

What I can think of is have a library which can does the job of http post and get the response. Then place this library under $SOAPUI_HOME/bin/ext. Use groovy script to make a API call to the class with parameters like the URL, Request file. Once you got the response, do the assertion in groovy itself.

Hey, I just come to see there is a step called HTTP Request. Hope you should give a try before trying my previous post.