Service stubs enable you to simulate the behavior of an actual
service for a wide variety testing or integration purposes.
Service stub overview
Service stubs are simulations of
an actual service, which can be used to functionally replace the service in
a test environment. A stub server replaces the actual application server.
Creating a service stub
You can use a WSDL (Web Service Description Language) specification
file to generate a service stub that can simulate the behavior of
the original service and uses the exact same interface.
Editing a service stub
Service stubs are generated with a single default response
for each operation in the WSDL specification. You can edit the service
stub to change the default responses or to add conditional responses
that can simulate the actual service.
Deploying service stubs
You deploy and run service stubs on a stub server, which
is a small application server dedicated to running service stubs.
The client application, or test, addresses the stub server instead
of the actual application of the original service.