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  • 1.  RA Web Service agent

    Posted May 15, 2018 07:45 AM

    Dear community,

     

    does anyone know the rationale for splitting the RA Web Service agent 3.x into two separate Web Service agents (SOAP and REST)

    I know that the Web Service agent was redesigned in v4 in order to support AWI but I'm not aware why Automic/CA created two separate agents, one for SOAP and one for REST.

     

    Does anyone know ?

     

    /Keld.



  • 2.  Re: RA Web Service agent

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 12, 2018 03:57 AM

    Hi Keld,

    The two webservice agents should probably have been separated from the start.

    They are very different technology stacks and combining them adds a lot of complexity.

    As we enhanced the REST webservice agent, the package was growing and the customer was forced to install both even if they only used one. The documentation was also included in the package so this only increased the problem.

    We now have dedicated agents so changes to one does not affect the other. 

     

    I hope that helps

    David