Testing a remote web service with soapUI

I have a Javax web service deployed in a remote Linux machine within a JBoss ESB container. I am able to test the web service usi开发者_JS百科ng soapUI on the same machine as where the service is deployed. The WDSL URI I used was something like http://127.0.0.1:8080/abcd/abcd?wsdl.

What I would like to do is to be able to test the same service from another machine using soapUI. I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with the IP address of the machine where the service is deployed. This does not seem to work. Can someone tell me what I am missing here?

Thanks.

a sum of things could go wrong there - as already mentioned by the others the firewall is blocking access for the given (address, port) pair. Another thing that happened to me was that the WSDL was generated using the name of the machine it was deployed on and whenever I was trying to call the service from a different machine it was complaining that I cannot find the given machine.

You need to test network connectively. One tool you can use is plain old telnet. If you telnet to the ip/port combo of the web server, you will get a response (an HTTP error). For example:

$ telnet 192.168.0.10 8080

If you get nothing then there is almost certainly a firewall blocking access.

If you are convinced that no firewall is blocking you, the other possibility is that the web server is only bound to the local network adapter (127.0.0.1) and not the other network adapters (ethernet/wifi). This is very unlikely however.