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Web Services Cruiser: News & History

  • 3/7/2011 Web Services Cruiser 4.0.2 released.
    This is a maintenance release with usabily improvement and bug fixing.
    • Added configuration file importing functionality.
    • Added support for keyboard events for submitting requests.
    • Fixed all reported bugs
  • 2/25/2011 Web Services Cruiser 4.0.1 released.
    This is a maintenance release with GUI improvement and bug fixing.
    • A new way to display URLs: it's displays the description instead of the URL itself so it's easy to understand for users. You can see the full URL by place the mouse over the description
    • Upgraded to use Apache HttpClient 4.1 final release for better performance
    • Fixed all reported bugs
  • 1/17/2011 Web Services Cruiser 4.0.0 released.
    This is a completely re-written of the application.
    • A completely new Web 2.0 compliant GUI. It greatly improves the usability and performance.
    • Supports all HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS, and TRACE).
    • Using Apache's HttpClient 4.x and JDK 1.5.
    • See here for the details of new features.
  • 1/8/2008 Web Services Cruiser 3.5.1 released.
    This is a maintenance release, also the last 3.x release. The new 4.0 release is under development and will use Apache's HttpClient 4.x and enhanced SOAP/WSDL support.
  • 6/10/2006 Web Services Cruiser 3.5.0 released.
    The major improvements over 3.4.x are:.
    • upgraded to use Apache's HttpClient 3.0. Much better performce.
    • embedded an evaluation license.
    • fixed all reported bugs.
  • 7/20/2004 Web Services Cruiser 3.4.0 released.
    The major improvements: using DHTML technologies to improve the usability and performamnce.:
    • use a DHTML processing bar to replace the previous popup windows, so you will get the response faster. Furthermore, each Web Services Cruiser screen has its own processing bar (you may open multiple Web Services Cruiser screens to test different inputs).
    • Input area is expandable. Compare the following two screens: [screen] [screen]
    • Output area is also expandable. Compare the following two screens: [screen] [screen]
    • fixed all reported bugs.
  • 2/18/2004 BEA Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: BEAS) listed Web Services Cruiser as a testing tool. Please see this page for the details.
  • 1/12/2006 Web Services Cruiser 3.3.0 released.
    The major improvements over previous versions are:
  • 12/18/2003 Web Services Cruiser 3.2.0 released.
    The major improvements over previous versions are:
    • Added timeout control for the requests. There are two kinds of timeout:
      1. HTTP connection establishing timeout.
      2. Waiting for data timeout (after connected)
    • There are two ways to set the timeout:
      1. Globally via Web Services Cruiser Administration panel.
      2. On per session base by clicking "Timeout Setting" button on the Request Input panel.
    • embedded an evaluation license.
    • fixed all reported bugs.
  • 6/18/2003 Web Services Cruiser 3.1 released. Significantly improved concurrent execution, and better GUI. See Screen Shots for details.
  • 6/28/2002 WebTester is renamed to Web Services Cruiser, and 2.0 released.
  • 4/5/2002 WebTester 1.1 released. A complete new GUI.
  • 3/4/2002 WebTester 1.0.1 released.
  • 3/1/2002 WebTester was list by Datamation Product Watch.
  • 1/15/2002 WebTester was list by JavaWorld under Development Tools.
  • 10/17/2001 WebTester 1.0 released.