Is your Web service production-ready? Frank Cohen has written a comprehensive introduction into performance testing of SOAP-based applications. This article presents an example with Apache SOAP and Java and the test scripts shown are built in a free open-source utility, Load.This utility is available at the Open source zone on IBM developerWorks and on Frank's company site (PushToTest). Load is available to write test automation suites for performance and scalability testing of SOAP-based Web services. It offers a scripting language to operate a library of test objects, and enables you to develop intelligent scripts that drive a Web service. Multiple concurrent running copies of the script show whether the Web service performs under simulated production situations. You will find the links in the article here (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-testsoap/).