Tagged “guides”

Connect to legacy API gateways like CA Layer7, webMethods, Akana, TIBCO Mashery, and Oracle OAG to discover services and ingest transaction logs.

Learn about the four independent versioning surfaces in the API platform—product releases, database schemas, service mappings, and generated contracts.

Use the zero-touch autopilot to automatically generate a draft service, operations, and mappings from a WSDL file in a single step.

Learn how to back up and restore the platform's configuration and state. Covers PostgreSQL backups, stateless services, and managing the credential

The audit trail records all configuration changes, providing a history of who changed what and when. Learn which actions are audited and how to query

Configure backend profiles for your services, including endpoint URLs, authentication, timeouts, retries, and multi-backend failover routing.

Use the Consume direction to create a SOAP facade that lets legacy SOAP clients call a modernized REST backend without requiring client-side changes.

Explains the three user roles (admin, operator, reader) and the resolution process for applying RBAC to control plane API requests.

Defines the core concepts of the SOAP-to-REST platform, including services, operations, mappings, discovery, and the publish/consume model.

A guide for daily operational checks, monitoring platform health, managing the service catalog, and applying updates. Covers dashboards, ingest health

A complete list of external endpoints the product connects to. Use this guide to configure firewall egress rules for license verification and updates.

Describes the automated F5 iRule reconciler, which keeps managed iRules on gateway appliances synchronized with the current product version to prevent

Configure exceptions to the default SOAP-to-REST data mapping for individual fields, such as date formats, numeric handling, and validation patterns.

Learn how the platform generates OpenAPI v3 specifications for Publish services at publish time, how conversion options affect the output, and how to

Learn how the RegexExampleGenerator creates representative example strings from XSD patterns, handling length constraints and common regex constructs.

An index of getting-started guides for the SOAP-2-REST platform. Learn core concepts, system requirements, and follow a quickstart to publish your first

Explains how to import a WSDL by file, URL, or pasted XML to generate a draft SOAP-to-REST service, including what is parsed and what configuration is

Deploy the platform to Google Cloud using a native topology with Cloud Run, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL with IAM DB auth, Cloud Storage, and Cloud IAP.

Learn about the supported deployment topologies for the SOAP-to-REST platform, including Docker Compose, Kubernetes/Helm, and native cloud options.

Specaria S2R converts between SOAP and REST APIs inside your VPC. Learn its core concepts, architecture, and how it bridges legacy and modern services.

Explains how real request/response pairs are captured from live traffic to create a set of curated examples for API onboarding and mapping validation.

Explains the two license capacity dimensions, max_discovered_services and max_converted_services, and how the platform measures usage against each cap.

Explains how entitlement is verified using signed JWT licenses. Covers key fetching via JWKS, periodic re-verification, and failure handling.

Describes the product's network architecture. Learn how in-VPC deployment, internal-only ingress, and private database links ensure data residency and

Understand structured logs, payload traces, and asynchronous execution tracking. Learn to search logs, debug errors, and detect contract drift.

Explains how the product handles transient network failures, operating normally for a 14-day grace period before entering a read-only degraded mode.

Monitor API estate health, including request volume, error rates, and latency, with a fast-loading dashboard that uses pre-computed aggregation tables.

A guide for operating the SOAP-2-REST platform in production, covering deployment, daily checks, troubleshooting, and backup and restore procedures.

Explains how the platform uses an Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) to authenticate operators via providers like Google IAP, Azure AD, OIDC, or SAML.

Learn about built-in observability features, including dashboards, metrics, SLOs, logs, tracing, and audit trails. Understand how data is aggregated for

Learn about the platform's security principles, including in-VPC data residency, role-based access control (RBAC), encrypted credentials, and audit trails.

Explains how product licensing works. The system uses a signed license from the platform to verify entitlement, capacity caps, and expiry.

Publishing a service activates a mapping version, making it live. Learn about readiness checks, immutable mapping versions, rollbacks, and managing WSDL

Use the Admin API to query pre-computed performance metrics and generate SLO reports. Filter by time window, service, and environment.

A step-by-step guide to deploy the standalone Docker Compose stack, import a WSDL, configure a backend, and publish a REST facade over a SOAP service.

Configure validation to check API traffic against its contract. Use preview modes to log violations without rejecting traffic before enforcing the

Describes the operational sequence for deploying and upgrading services. Covers deployment order, release cadence, verification, and rollback procedures.

Learn the no-code process for onboarding SOAP and REST services. Covers Publish (REST facade), Consume (SOAP facade), and SOAP Broker directions.

Reference for supported SOAP versions, WSDL message styles, and XSD types for the SOAP-to-REST conversion engine, including fault handling and nullability.

Use the SOAP Broker direction to gain observability and access control for existing SOAP services without modifying the contract or message payload.

Provides a canonical record of SOAP-2-REST releases, with links to detailed release notes, upgrade guides, and versioning policies.

Comprehensive release notes for the SOAP-2-REST v1.0 General Availability release. Details features including bidirectional conversion, traffic-driven

A complete reference for SOAP-to-REST conversion options. Control data types, field naming, error shapes, and validation with system, service, operation

Technical documentation for a no-code SOAP-to-REST conversion platform. Details the architecture, components, configuration, and operation on Cloud Run.

Find answers to common questions about the SOAP-to-REST platform, including product model, SOAP/XSD support, deployment, security, and troubleshooting.

Lists the required PostgreSQL database, container runtime, network access, and resource baselines for deploying the SOAP-2-REST platform.

Automatically discover and inventory your SOAP services by analyzing live traffic at your API gateway or load balancer. Prioritize modernization based on

A symptom-first guide to diagnosing and resolving common operational issues, including error code explanations, log query examples, and recovery

Learn the standard procedure for safely upgrading the SOAP-2-REST platform, including the order of operations, rollback steps, and zero-downtime

Install the complete SOAP-2-REST platform as a self-contained VM appliance for VMware or Hyper-V. Ideal for air-gapped or VM-only environments.