Description
Endpoints act as a proxy between the client and the Catalog Framework. Endpoints expose the client to the Catalog Framework.
Endpoint interface formats/protocols can include a variety of formats, including (but not limited to):
- SOAP Web services
- RESTful services
- JMS
- RMI
- JSON
- OpenSearch
The Endpoint may transform a client request into a compatible Catalog format and then transform the response into a compatible client format. Endpoints may use Transformers to perform these transformations. This allows an endpoint to interact with Source(s) that have different interfaces. For example, an OpenSearch Endpoint can send a query to the Catalog Framework which could then query a federated source that has no OpenSearch interface.
Endpoints are meant to be the only client-accessible components in the Catalog.
Examples
The following Endpoints are provided with the default Catalog out of the box: