[AXIS-2650] Tests depending on the services hosted at soapinterop.java.sun.com cannot run

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Bjorn Townsend
• Created: 12/Apr/07 23:39
• Updated: 30/Dec/11 12:04
• Resolved: 21/Apr/07 01:28

Description

Axis's test suite contains a number of tests that depend on services hosted on soapinterop.java.sun.com in order to run. Unfortunately, that host seems to have been taken down by Sun – the hostname still resolves but the host is not responsive. Since the Axis tests can't get the wsdl they need from the soapinterop website, they die with an exception.

In order for future versions of Axis 1.x tests, one of the following things needs to happen:

1) Sun reinstates the web services previously hosted on soapinterop.java.sun.com
2) The services are mirrored elsewhere for the Axis tests to hit
3) Replacement tests are created
or, most undesirably,
4) The tests that depend on these services are simply dropped from the Axis test suite.

I have already contacted the SoapBuilders webmaster at Sun regarding option #1, but have not received a response. I did find that on the Sun SoapBuilders website, links to soapinterop.java.sun.com still exist:

http://java.sun.com/webservices/interop/soapbuilders/ (soapbuilders website)
http://java.sun.com/webservices/interop/soapbuilders/r2/ (contains links to soapinterop wsdls)

Ideally, we can find a way to make these tests usable again.