Testing web services locally - faster

I really hate having to test my web services while still going through the whole TCP IP stack when testing them on the local machine. Luckily, Brian Ritchi has a nice and elegant solution. He created a proxy class that invokes the local object under the web service instead of the web service itself. That's pretty cool. A good perf gain and a great way to make your automated unit tests run faster.  (via  TSS)