Overview

If you want to virtualize a service that is not available and is not described by a WSDL or schema, you can virtualize it by manually adding Message Responders that represent the related behavior.

Adding a Message Responder

To add Message Responders manually:

If you do not have an existing project, Responder suite, and .pva file to contain the Message Responder, create one now.
- See Adding Projects, Virtual Assets, and Responder Suites for details.
Add a Message Responder tool to the .pva file.
- See Adding Responders, Output Tools, and Validations for details.
In the tool configuration panel, configure the Message Responder
- See Message Responder Overview for details.
- Note that the Response tab’s Form Input controls can be tailored to either SOAP messages or plain XML messages.

Tips:

Use multiple response mode
Select Always match under XPath function, and clear Always match under HTTP URL Parameters. This will allow the response message we are configuring to be correlated to values that come in the URL parameters (instead of values in an XML request).
Enable always match xpath, clear always match http url. This will allow the response message we are configuring to be correlated to values that come in the URL parameters (instead of values in an XML request). add a parameter under http url parameters

Deploying the Virtual Assets

If the .pva is created directly in the VirtualAssets project, it will be deployed automatically. Otherwise, the simplest way to deploy the virtual asset is to copy the containing .pva file into the VirtualAssets project.

Alternatively, you could right-click the Virtualize Server view’s Local machine node, choose Add Virtual Asset, specify the .pva file that includes the virtual assets you want to deploy, then click Finish. When the wizard completes, Virtualize will automatically copy the .pva file to the VirtualAssets project.

For a more detailed discussion of deployment procedures and options, see Deploying Virtual Assets.

Customizing the Virtual Assets

For details on how to customize the Message Responder’s behavior, see Message Responder Overview.