[TUSCANY-3690] demos/xml-bigbank fails because remote services aren't available

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Java-SCA-1.6
• Fix Version/s: Java-SCA-1.6.1
• Assignee: Simon Nash
• Reporter: Simon Nash
• Created: 26/Sep/10 20:59
• Updated: 26/Oct/10 12:53
• Resolved: 26/Oct/10 12:44

Description

The xml-bigbank demo is failing frequently (possibly permanently) because of unavailability of the exchange rate RSS feed and the stock quote web service that it uses.

Based on a large number of attempts over the last few days:

1. The currency exchange rate RSS feed at http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/rippy/exchange/ seems to be down permanently. This causes a runtime exception when attempting to access the data from this feed.

2. The WSDL import from http://www.webservicex.com/stockquote.asmx?WSDL works only rarely. This causes a contribution load failure because the <binding.ws> element that uses this WSDL definition can't be processed.

3. The service endpoint at http://www.webservicex.com/stockquote.asmx works only rarely. This causes a runtime exception when attempting to invoke the web service.

This demo isn't useful if it never works. I suspect this has been the case for some considerable time, given that no-one has noticed the separate databinding problem described by TUSCANY-3689 even though this has been broken for over a year.