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Standards and specifications supported by soapUI

soapUI supports a large number of web-service related standards, this page tries to give an overview with links to relevant sections in the User Guide.

XML - related standards

soapUI supports the following XML-related standards:

WADL and REST

soapUI supports importing REST services from WADL 1.0 files and the WADL 1.1 draft specification.

For REST Services built in soapUI without an initial WADL, soapUI is able to generate such a file for you, according to the draft specification.

WSDL and SOAP

soapUI supports WSDL 1.1 and both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 services. SOAP-Encoding (obsolete but still in use) is supported reasonably well for validation, forms, etc...

MTOM and Attachments

soapUI supports both the intial MIME-based SOAP-Attachment and "improved" SwA (SOAP with Attachments) standards. MTOM is now the preferred way to send binary content (supported by most "modern" SOAP stacks), and should be fully supported Read More

WS-Addressing

WS-Addressing is supported according to specifications:

In SoapUI setting WS-A message headers is possible through WS-A inspector of request/response, while asserting is enabled through adding WS-Addressing assertion to Request/MockResponse TestStep

WS-Security

soapUI currently uses the Apache WSS4J project for providing WS-Security support, which includes the following standards:

WS-ReliableMessaging

SoapUIPro supports the following WS-ReliableMessaging Specifications:

In addition, it also supports the following WS-MakeConnection Specification:

In soapUI, WS-ReliableMessaging is set up through the WS_RM inspector, or, on the TestCase level, through the TestCase options dialog.


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