Test web service on GlassFish or Tomcat

Question

I need to do some performance tests of my web service, in fact it is a simple servlet. I'm using GlassFish 3.1 but i can switch to Tomcat. Could you give some advices and tools names which i can use to do these tests?

Answer 1

We use the open source jmeter tool quite a lot. Here is the project page: http://jmeter.apache.org/

Answer 2

I would recommend SOAP UI as the best tool for testing SOAP web services.

If it's a REST service, you can use any client that can make an HTTP request to a URL. You can use java.net.URLConnection to do that.

I don't see how GLASSFISH or Tomcat matter here. Both have compliant servlet engines.