Testing of Web Services

Hi there,

I have been testing Web Services particularly WCF web services by creating a service reference in my Visual Studio test project.  Thats all easy and good.

However, I would like to test this same web service thru this software called soapUI and for some reason, it is always timing out.  the nearest clue that i get is "Error getting response; java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read time out"

However when i use this same software to test another web service that i created which is not a WCF web service but a asmx web service, the soapUI is able to test the web service.  I understand WCF is suppose to be interoperable so not sure why the soapUI cant invoke the web service.

The following is my simple web service

    [ServiceContract]
    public interface ITestServices
    {
        [OperationContract]
        string GetTestData(string type);
    }

    public class TestServices : ITestServices
    {
        public string GetTestData(string type)
        {
            return "You have provided : " + type;
        }
    }

How can I test this web service without the use of the proxy class generated by svcutil.exe?  Can I simple mock a soap request something like this

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/">
   <soap:Header/>
   <soap:Body>
      <tem:GetTestData>
         <!--Optional:-->
         <tem:type>a test value</tem:type>
      </tem:GetTestData>
   </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

and call it from a command line? is this possible?  thanks
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