Glossary

Plain-language definitions of the terms used across the marketing material. For the operator/technical glossary, see the public knowledge base → Getting Started → Concepts.

Term	Meaning
SOAP estate	The collection of SOAP web services an organization runs — often hundreds, built over many years.
REST facade / Publish	Exposing a SOAP backend as a REST API. Consumers call REST; the platform converts to SOAP.
SOAP facade / Consume	Presenting a SOAP interface (WSDL) in front of a backend that has migrated to REST, so legacy SOAP clients keep working.
WSDL	The contract that describes a SOAP service — its operations and message shapes.
XSD	The schema language that defines the data types inside SOAP messages.
OpenAPI v3	The industry-standard contract format for REST APIs. The platform generates one per published service.
Full-field mapping	A mapping that covers the entire request and response tree — every element, attribute, and optional field — not just the common path.
Deterministic mapping	A mapping generated from the contract by rules, so the same WSDL always produces the same result (no guesswork, no drift).
Conversion preference	A tunable setting that controls how a SOAP shape becomes a REST shape (date format, casing, null handling, etc.), set platform-wide and overridable per service/operation/field.
Traffic-driven discovery	Learning which SOAP services exist by observing live gateway-edge traffic, rather than uploading WSDLs by hand.
Learned example	A real request/response payload captured from production traffic and attached to a service, so consumers see what actually flows.
Connector	The integration that lets the platform discover services and ingest traffic from a specific gateway or load balancer.
Generic-HTTP receiver	A universal "bring your own gateway" ingest path for any edge that can emit accessible HTTP traffic logs.
Gateway edge	The load balancer or API gateway your SOAP traffic already flows through.
Correlation ID	A unique identifier attached to a request and carried through the whole lifecycle, used to trace and search.
Contract drift	When a backend's response no longer matches the expected contract — the platform flags it.
SLO report	A report measuring the conversion layer against availability and latency targets.
RBAC	Role-based access control — admin, operator, and reader roles.
IAP / OIDC / SAML	Identity standards the platform uses to authenticate operators via your identity provider.
VPC	Your private cloud network. The product runs inside it; your data never leaves it.
Heartbeat	A small, numeric, PII-free signal the product sends to the Specaria platform for licensing — never your traffic or payloads.
Capacity (discovered / converted services)	The two published dimensions used to count usage for licensing and pricing.
GA	General Availability — the production-ready v1 release.