All Questions
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Encapsulating a central soap service in a microservice?
I am currently developing an application (rest-backend and SPA) that requires information from people (personal data, department, superior... ). Our company has a central directory for this purpose. ...
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Does presentation layer inlcude REST and SOAP services?
Please, consider three pictures, I found in internet:
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I always thought, that REST and SOAP services are in service layer - see #1. However, if you look at #2, you'll see, that presentation ...
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How to abstract the communication protocol used to communicate between different microservices?
I would like to implement a microservice which can support both REST and SOAP, and will use the protocol based on the client preference (or what the client is already using).
I have been thinking of ...
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API design reference , Empty list response (REST, SOAP, ...) type compatibility
Not sure where to go for an authoritive/text book answer for this question.
Suppose a service returns a list of something e.g. Customer, Employee, Fruits, etc.
What should be returned when the list ...
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Confused about how APIs are called
I'm new to APIs. Conceptually, I understand what an API is, but I get confused when it comes to the some of the technical details.
All of the tutorials I've read talk about URLs and endpoints, and ...
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Building a rest api layer on top of a soap webservice
We want to build a rest api layer on top of a soap webservice.
Our current situation is that we have a coldfusion application that talks with the webservice, both running on different servers. The ...
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How to design document exchange system
I am trying to come up with a design of document exchange system.
System should be for business-to-business communication.
Description:
There will be possibly 100+ clients(consumers) - they will have ...
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Point-to-Point integration vs ESB
We have a system which has been in development for 10+ years and still continues. It is built as an SOA and use SOAP. We have a new client, internally within our company, who wants to integrate with ...
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Is WSDL still used? [closed]
As today most of the development is towards the lightweight service and RESTful architecture, is WSDL still needed to describe these services? In today's world -- where cloud computing, mobile ...
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Are SOAP services better than RESTful services for interfacing with complex scientific models?
I have a scientific model that is typically run by providing it a complex text-based input file. I would like to provide a service endpoint to allow users to instantiate the underlying model. The ...
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Protocol to expose services to process both on same machine or remote
I am developing a server that exposes multiple services to other processes (they could be both servers or hmi clients): those could be hosted on the same machine or not and they could be written in ...
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SOAP and JSON services
Is it possible to produce a web service based on SOAP and on JSON simultaneously?
For what I know it seems that only RESTfull services may use JSON
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What is the present-day significance of SOAP
Last I encountered a SOAP based service was during my internship in a financial firm in 2013. That was the time when I started my career in IT. I remember having some study material about SOAP in one ...
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Is it good practice to consume both the REST and SOAP API for a particular service?
I am in the planning phase of a project that will use a 3rd party service that supports both REST and SOAP. The SOAP API is more mature and thus supports more operations.
I'd love to depend only on ...
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Soap vs. rest - a hybrid approach? [closed]
I have a proper SOA architecture, with web services defined with WSDL and responding to SOAP requests.
But this application has also an endpoint that responds to json request and replies in json ...
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