Altova XMLSpy

What do you like best?

XMLSpy is a very powerful tool that needs to be included in your development toolbox. The XMLSpy editor is extremely helpful when trying to solve issues in your backend systems and processes when creating or developing your XML or XSD templates. The step through, viewer and the ability to add threads for stress and integration needs when whitebox testing or development is phenomenal.

The wizards have been revamped so that it's not complicated but actually straight-forward when implementing some of the features that are unlocked. One of the more powerful aspects with XMLSpy is the WSDL & SOAP tools help tremendously when creating or developing your process. Since I'm a SQA Engineer the tools and debuggers in XMLSpy have helped me to isolate issues or even for that matter potential issues/bugs that could surface in your testing phase. I've used the SOAP client to help me when I needed to interpret third-party WSDL docs from our development partners. It is so helpful to use the database integration portion of the tool that helps with SQL interoperability configurations. Download the tool you won't regret it.

What do you dislike?

I guess the only thing that is a negative is price but down the line it pays for itself.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would highly recommend downloading and using XMLSpy, even if it's just for the trial.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The issues that I have used XMLSpy to solve were my project needs when we were using XML in Java to parse our creation of XML templates.