Getting acquainted with SALT

SALT enables Tuxedo users to expose Tuxedo-based services as web services to ensure that any external web-service-based application can call a Tuxedo service just like calling another web service. Also, SALT helps Tuxedo applications to call external web services without any code development.

SALT is an integral solution for a Tuxedo application and web services, and it enables seamless integration between Tuxedo applications and external web-service-based applications. It increases the possibility of SOA adoption for any organization with distributed applications spanning over large physical distances with diverse hardware and software platforms. So, you can use SALT to extend your Tuxedo application in a more loosely coupled manner and re-use and protect your ROI.

To use SALT, we need to know its components and some of the important concepts behind it. Let us look at them in detail.

The SALT gateway (GWWS) and service metadata repository server

The SALT gateway...