Actional Diagnostics
Improve Performance, Quality, and Trust as You Develop Services—SOAP, REST and POX
Developing and deploying high-quality, well performing, compliant Web services is no easy task. The inherent complexities in a Web services lifecycle that involves frequent updates and shorter QA cycles, together with the challenges of working with distributed services that have interdependencies, can make development a long and arduous process. Progress® Actional® Diagnostics helps overcome those challenges by reducing the complexity of developing, testing and validating XML-based services, and by making unit testing and compliance checking accessible earlier in the lifecycle and easier to accomplish.
Actional Diagnostics accelerates problem diagnosis and resolution, service testing, compliance validation, and quality assurance, with easy-to-use tools for:
- Code-free problem resolution through the ability to understand service behavior and identify problems throughout the lifecycle without the need to write code.
- Validating performance, quality, and compliance to quickly and easily perform unit, functional, load, compliance, regression, and acceptance testing on services.
- Deep visibility into service behavior and potential bottlenecks by being able to follow process flows and map interdependencies early in the lifecycle, when problems are easier to find and less costly to fix.
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Accelerate Web service development, testing and validation with a FREE tool that will improve service quality, performance and compliance, and simplify time consuming XML-oriented tasks.
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By pinpointing performance and availability issues and mapping interdependencies early in pre-production, developers can accelerate time to market for new services, and:
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Actional Diagnostics helps application developers, client developers and consumers to understand all of the conditions for evaluating, using and testing Web services. Specific product features include:
- XML visibility and problem solving: Allows users to inspect, invoke, test and create simulations for prototyping and problem solving, using easy to understand "fill in the blank" forms.
- Pseudocode™ view, no XML required: Provides a functional view of XML messages as transmitted or received "on the wire" in human-readable form.
- Load checking: Allows users to test the performance and scalability of services before they're delivered to the performance testing team.
- Early service simulation: Enables developers to simulate a service based on captured or invoked message, and access the simulation from local clients.
- Application X-Ray: Maps out an application centric service view of the underlying transaction path, including details about Java objects, ActiveX data objects, WCF processes, JMS calls, RPC calls, and more.
- Design-time policy validation: Lets individuals validate compliance with industry standards, with the simple click of a button.
Actional products are built for optimal integration and data interoperability with a wide range of heterogeneous infrastructure such as applications, data sources, network devices, middleware, identity management products, and registries and repositories. Actional places great importance on supporting industry standards to make this interoperability possible.
Actional Diagnostics system requirements:
Server(s):
- 2 GHz processor or faster
- 2 GB memory (recommended)
- 520 MB disk space for the server
Requires Java JDK 1.6 (or higher). The Java Virtual Machine version that you use must support the -server option.
Operating System(s):
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003, XP Professional (SP1, SP2 or SP3) and Vista, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 for x86, Mac OS X 10.6
Browser(s):
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0
- Firefox 2.0 and 3.0
- Apple Safari 4.0.3 on Mac OS X
Note: The Collector is not supported under Vista, Linux, and Mac.
Database Manager:
- Apache Derby 10.5 (Embedded)
