HttpTool

When working with Webservices it's often nice to have full control over the request that is sent to the service, and see the response of the service in it's native form. This tool provides exactly that: it allows you to use a text editor to specify a request, posts that to an URL you define, and displays the result in another text editor.

Beside that it has a few nice features that make life easier, like profiles to remember requests and URL's so that you don't have to type them in each time. Profiles are stored using Java Preferences, so they are stored in the path .java/.userPrefs in the HOME directory on Linx/Unix systems or in the path Software\JavaSoft\Prefs of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive of the Registry on Windows systems.

HttpTool uses Slava Pestov's jEdit component to edit and display XML with syntax highlighting.