And because the plugin deploys to Kong Gateway using the Kong Lua PDK, it’s fast! SOAP XML Overview The plugin can convert JSON to XML SOAP and vice versa, all via configuration. To help smooth this integration headache, the Kong customer experience team developed a SOAP Transformation plugin that removes the need for an integration layer or custom code. I speak from experience, working both as an integration developer and in engineering roles, building products that expose and consume SOAP Web Services. In addition, there is an investment in learning to use the integration tool.
But acquiring, developing and maintaining an integration tool or custom code for this purpose is a huge overhead. But SOAP Web Services still exist and will be around for a long while yet.Ĭonsuming these legacy SOAP Web Services normally requires a middleware integration tool or custom code to develop a modern JSON-based REST Web Service-essentially a wrapper around the legacy SOAP Web Service to improve usability. REST Web Services are now the de-facto standard. Add to that the learning curve to understand SOAP, and it’s clear why there was a need for an alternative. While SOAP includes many benefits, the heavy nature of XML and the marshaling and unmarshaling of XML to programmatic entities such as Java objects, impacts performance and scalability. SOAP is a standards-based web services access protocol that relies on XML to describe the web service and for all request and response messages. SOAP, Simple Object Access Protocol, Web Services have been around for a long time, and not too long ago was the default when it came to exposing functionality using a common format. Provide a platform to deliver zero trust security and OPAĪutomatically collect hundreds of traces, logs and metrics Turn connectivity into electricity with Kong Meshīuild more performant and reliable load balancing via service mesh Supercharge your Istio clusters with the leading API gateway Rapidly design, publish and consume APIs and services Pay-as-you-go from startup friendly to enterprise scaleĪccelerate your journey into microservicesĮmpower teams to provide security, governance and compliance
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