Using the SoapUI mockupserver in a OSB / SOA environment.

http://groovy.codehaus.org/When developing applications you always need to connect to others systems. Those systems are not always available or not in place at the right time. A mock-up server, also known as stub server, is a good temporary solution. In the product stack of SoapUI a very good mock-up server is available. Apart of a nice GUI interface to develop the mock services, scripting based on Groovy, it is free of license:-)

Info on SoapUI Mockup server:

• general: http://www.soapui.org/Service-Mocking/mocking-soap-services.html
• howto: http://www.soapui.org/Getting-Started/mock-services.html
• video: http://addicted2webdesign.com/2010/07/soapui-mock-service-mp4/

In your development environment you should place the mock-up server along your OSB and/or SOA development server. Deploy your mock-up services to the mock-up server. Now make sure your endpoints of your services are pointing to the mock-up server and you are able to test.
To make it even transparent, place an Apache webserver in front of the OSB/SOA and mock-up server and let Apache decide of the service call is being executed on the OSB/SOA server or on the mock-up server.

With de deploy server (your workstation or a central deploy server) you deploy your OSB and/or SOA artefacts as normally to the server. You also deploy your SoapUI project to the mock-up server.
With Apache you control via rewrite rules if the request for tht service is passed to the OSB/SOA Server or to the mock-up server.

Apache Rewrite
To rewrite your request to the OSB/SOA server or the Mockup server is done in the Apache config file. Create a separate file to read this. Here is an example

#
# This files shows the list of services that are being stubbed/mock-uped.
#

#
# GENERIC, DO NOT CHANGE
#
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so

# Enable rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLogLevel 9
RewriteLog /data/www/logs/stub_rewrite.log
#
#
# OFF: GENERIC, DO NOT CHANGE

#
# Add here your stubbed services
#
RewriteRule ^/MyProject/MyService http://mockupserver.vijfhuizen.com:8080/MyProject/MyService [P]

SoapUI Mockup Server
A lot of discussing is going on on the SOapUI mockup server how to start and stop it as a background process. Here is a script to stop and start this in  the background.

#!/bin/bash
#
# soapui_mockupserver: Start the Eviware SoapUI Mockup Server
#
# chkconfig: 23 99 5
# description:  Start the Eviware SoapUI Mockup Server
#
#

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
SOAPPID=`ps -ef | grep mockservicerunner.sh | grep -v grep | awk ' { print $2 }'`
BAD_USER="This script should be run as root or as weblogic user. Exiting......."

if [ "$USER" != 'root' -a "$USER" != 'weblogic' -a "$USER" != '' ]; then echo $BAD_USER && exit 1;fi

if [ "$USER" == 'root' -o "$USER" == '' ]; then SOAPUI_DIR=`su - weblogic -c 'echo $SOAPUI_DIR'`;fi

cd $SOAPUI_DIR/bin

start()
{
        echo -n $"Starting $0"
        if [ "$USER" == 'root' -o "$USER" == '' ]; then
          su -c 'nohup $SOAPUI_DIR/bin/mockservicerunner.sh /data/mockup/mockup-services-soapui-project.xml -p 8080 -Djava.awt.headless=true -f /data/mockup/output 2>&1 &' - weblogic
        else
                 nohup $SOAPUI_DIR/bin/mockservicerunner.sh /data/mockup/mockup-services-soapui-project.xml -p 8080 -Djava.awt.headless=true -f /data/mockup/output  2>&1 &
        fi
        echo
  echo "Restart Apache gracefully..."
  for i in `ls /etc/init.d/*fon`
  do 
    echo $i graceful
    $i graceful
  done
}

stop()
{
        echo -n $"Shutting down $0"
        for i in `ps -ef | grep soap | grep -v $0 | awk ' { print $2 }'`
        do
          echo -n " $i"
          kill -9 $i
        done
        unset SOAPPID
        echo
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart|reload)
        stop; start
        ;;
  condrestart)
        stop; start;
        ;;
  status)
        if [ $SOAPPID ]; then echo "Running"; else echo "Not running";fi
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|condrestart}"
        exit 1
esac

exit 0