[Dev] soapui

[Frank Cohen]

Hi William: I spoke with Ole Matzura and Niclas Reimertz of the  
soapui project. They support bundling soapui with TestMaker 5. They  
advised to use soapui 1.7. They told me there is a soapui test runner  
in 1.7 that we should use to execute soapui tests. Provided that  
there is nothing in their test runner that would keep us from running  
in a multi-threaded TestNode environment, it seems better to use  
their test runner than to transform their XML files when using soapui  
tests in TestMaker. Please investigate their test runner to make sure  
there that it is thread safe and will scale.

Other things we discussed:
- They are working on a commercial version of soapui that they will  
announce next week. The commercial version is built on soapui 1.7 and  
adds wizards to perform XPath and other functions. The commercial  
version comes with support services. soapui 1.7 will be LGPL and the  
commercial version is a wrapper around the LGPL core soapui 1.7 jars.
- They distribute soapui documentation under a free license and we  
may include it in the TestMaker distribution.

-Frank

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