Features

Features

Fronsetia allows you to:

• send customised requests to the webservice (REST and SOAP),
• read WSDL definitions,
• override or remove the standard HTTP headers from the request to be sent,
• set any other HTTP header you wish,
• set the HTTP protocol name and version,
• use various HTTP protocol methods,
• set the sent Content-Type,
• authenticate to the webservice,
• use a proxy and authenticate to the proxy,
• accept any TLS/SSL certificate (useful for test environments),
• manually set the REST content (request body),
• manually set the SOAP content (prologue, headers, body and the XML before them, after them and in between),
• set the character set of the request,
• view the response,
• view the response's HTTP code and status line,
• view the response's HTTP headers,
• verify if there was a SOAP Fault in the response,
• pretty-print the response.

You can think of Fronsetia as a simple version of SoapUI on the web, or a simple and free and open-source version of the wls_utc utility (but less powerful - for example, it doesn't interpret the service's schema to provide separate fields for various parameters).

General features:

• supports Web Services Description Language (WSDL),
• supports Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP),
• supports Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP),
• supports HTTP Authentication,
• supports the same versions of Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) as the server the application will be running on,
• supports HTTP Proxying,
• supports Jakarta EE (Java EE) platform (modern Jakarta EE application servers),
• portable and system-independent.

Compatibility

Various versions (in light/minimal or full/self-contained WAR files) of Fronsetia have been successfully used with the following servers in the following versions:

1. Apache Tomcat:
   • 6.0.x (6.0.29)
   • 9.0.x (9.0.76)
   • 10.1.x (10.1.12)
   • 11.x (11.0.9)
2. Eclipse Jetty:
   • 7.x (7.5.4.v20111024)
   • 10.x (10.0.15)
   • 11.x (11.0.15)
   • 12.x (12.0.23)
3. WildFly:
   • 10.x (10.1.0-servlet)
   • 13.x (13.0.0-servlet)
   • 14.x (14.0.1-servlet)
   • 22.x (22.0.0-servlet)
   • 26.x (26.1.0-servlet)
   • 28.x (28.0.1)
   • 36.x (36.0.1)
4. Eclipse GlassFish:
   • 7.x (7.0.5)

Other versions and servers may also work.