SOAP capabilities in APIC

APIC supports exposing existing SOAP services as either SOAP or REST proxy APIs. The basic requirement for the services to be exposed is that those services should support Web Services Basic Profile 1.1 – Second Edition.

To create a SOAP API definition, you will need access to an existing SOAP web service. This existing web service can have a WSDL that can be defined either by a single standalone WSDL (we will be using this in our examples) or by a WSDL file that references other WSDL files and/or schemas.

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For standalone services definitions that have no external dependencies, such WSDLs can be directly loaded from a directory to create the SOAP API definition.

For service definitions that have dependencies on other WSDLs and schemas, you will need to create a ZIP archive of the main service definition and all its dependencies and then load the ZIP file to create the SOAP API definition.

APIC provides API generation patterns that...