Use Cases

I am not sure, but we must have 3 or 5 Web Services, at all. Software developers code for security and all other stuff. We don’t have a problem and don’t need any tool to manage Web Services.

The company that we signed a contract to develop a mobile application for our agency wants us to open them the necessary functionality as REST services. Almost all required functionality already exist in our legacy SOAP services. Will we have to rewrite all of them?

We consume an external API with a per-use charge, and many of our internal applications use it. Since the API serves sensitive personal information, we don’t want to give username/password to all developers, and we want to be able to see who accesses which information.

We started using Keycloak for SSO, and we will update all our Web Services so that they will take authentication tokens from Keycloak.

We have a legacy application which is used company wide for user management. It keeps data in IBM DB2 database. We want to be able to retrieve the roles of our clients from this database, and use these roles for endpoint based authorization after the JWT authentication

We want to log all access details and message content of our Web Services to be able to find out which data we sent to whom, and when. Additionally, only authorized users must be able to see this data. We tried to log everything on our relational database, but soon the data became too big …

For an urgent integration project, my unit has to develop about 100 Web Services in one month, but I have only two personnel which none of them has developed a Web Service before!

We have some Web Services which consumes other stakeholder’s APIs/Web Services before responding to other parties. Sometimes, some of our Web Services stop running for some unknown reasons, and we have no clue about the situation until we start receiving phone calls or e-mails from our clients. This situation started to be a crisis in …

We retreive the currency rates of the Central Bank daily, and record the values to local Postgres and Oracle databases for our internal applications. We planned to develop a simple program for that, but had no time to do. Is it possible to automate the process to avoid the effort and potential problems of manual …