Prove your Systems — Protect
your Databases
- Prevent database corruption
- Check business rules
- Verify your Web Services: WSDL, SOAP
- Sample, debug, verify and monitor any kind of XML-over-HTTP
requests (POST only)
- Offload processing from overloaded servers, moving from
a two- or three-tier architecture to a three- or four-tier
architecture
Test the proxy yourself with our SOAP
Demonstration.
Simple Operation
- Java servlet (WAR) for Apache web servers
- Sits transparently between clients and servers
- Uncompresses and validates incoming XML-over-HTTP requests
- Passes back response data unchanged
- Wide range of options for handling errors: rejection,
logging, on-sending, transforming
- Configuration by XML file: no programming required
Power and Safety
- Uncompress requests
- Validate using W3C XML Schemas for datatype and basic
structure
- Validate using (draft ISO) Schematron
for value-to-value and structure-to-value
constraints.
- Block incoming requests with XML DOCTYPE declarations,
preventing several kinds of attacks and configuration problems,
and enforcing a typical web services rule.
- Request data is uncompressed but is not augmented or changed.
Response data from the server is passed back to clients
unread and unchanged.
Pricing: US$1,000 per site,
includes up to three hours of consulting and schema development.
(Australian purchasers please add 10% GST.)
Contact: sales@topologi.com
Relation to WSDL: A WSDL
specification containing a portType/operation/input
specified with types using W3C XML Schemas, Schematron and/or
RELAX NG, can be used to create a TVP configuration file.
The TVP can be used transparently with any web service that
send XML requests using POST, including Web Services.
FAQ: Please note that the
Topologi Validating Proxy is not a general routing or dispatching
tool. However, when it detects an invalid document, it can
transform that document and post it to another server; so
it can act as the front-door for such a system.
Requirements: Recent Apache
Jakarta webserver. Java 1.3.1 or beyond. Latest Apache Xerces
and Xalan. Can be ported to other Java webservers or customized
on request.
Backgrounding: For an article
suggesting that for larger traffic it becomes more efficient
to start offloading (schema, compression, encyrption, transformation
etc) onto a specialized device (such as dedicated machines
running the Topologi Validating Proxy) see XML
Grows... and Slows.
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