How do I test a web service receiving multiple requests from its clients?

I have an axis开发者_开发技巧 web service deployed on JBOSS. My web service is synchronous. So, how does a web service handle multiple requests? And how do I simulate/test that my code can handle multiple requests well?

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You can use Apache JMeter for this. Here's a webservice test plan guide.

That said, I agree with skaffman that Axis isn't the optimum choice for webservices. If you can, use Sun Metro or Apache CXF instead, both which are JAX-WS implementations.

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Axis isn't the most modern or performant of the web service stacks (and that's putting it kindly), but it should have no problem with a decent load of simultaneous requests. If there's going to be a problem, it's more likely to be with your own code.

The best way to test this is to use Axis to write a web service client, and use it to fire a large number of requests at your server. If you've already used Axis to generate java artefacts, it should be fairly straightforward.