Bootstrapping OAC

Bootstrapping is the process of harvesting assets into OAC for the very first time. Once done, you should consider setting up the Harvester for on-going and continuous harvesting.

The first step when bootstrapping OAC is the identification of reliable sources to harvest assets. In OAC, this is fairly straightforward as it consists of identifying sources of WSDLs and WADLs.

Note

Unlike OER, where almost every single asset that makes up a service is harvested (that is, WSDLs, BPELs components, Rules components, composite XMLs, XSDs, XSLTs, and so on), OAC is only interested in assets related to an interface. In other words, OAC harvests WSDL and WADL service descriptors. This makes OAC very simple to use and ensures that every user can search, discover, and consume services and APIs very quickly.

Please note that the version of OAC used in this book did not provide support to harvest RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) documents. This feature may be introduced in later versions...