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Debugging Tools

Eclipse IDE

See this blog entry for information on debugging web services using Eclipse. Note this is primarily for tracing/debugging source code; you will probably still want to use one of the tools below to capture network traffic, view SOAP requests and responses, etc.

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Wireshark, a network packet analyzer, can be helpful in case you are getting cryptic WstxUnexpectedCharException errors from CXF's Woodstox StAX processor. This error can indicate a non-XML response from the server (e.g., an HTML error message) that Woodstox can't process. In these cases, Wireshark can help with troubleshooting by providing you the non-XML response data. See this blog entry for more information.