Hi Randy, As @Dushani Wellappili <dusha...@wso2.com> has mentioned, WSO2 API Manager mainly uses the *Thrift *and *WebService* protocols for communication. (Eg: Communication between Gateway and Key Manager in an API Manager distributed deployment).
However, Thrift is not recommended to be used in a production environment, specifically when fronting a key manager cluster by a load balancer such as Nginx+. The reason for this is that most of the load balancers do not have session-awareness. Hence it is recommended to use *WSClient *intead of * Thrift.* *Thrift * is a service released as an open source Apache project and it was designed to compete with *SOAP * and *REST*. It was introduced with the intention of including - Scalability - Simplicity - Speed - Evolution Please find the below resources in addition to the ones stated by Dushani, [1] https://wso2.com/library/articles/2015/01/wso2-api-manager-deployment-customization-and-troubleshooting-part-02/ [2] https://nordicapis.com/microservice-showdown-rest-vs-soap-vs-apache-thrift-and-why-it-matters/ Thanks, Viduranga. On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:51 PM Dushani Wellappili <dusha...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi Randy, > > WSO2 API Manager uses either Apache Thrift [1] [2] [3] which is a binary > communication protocol or Web Service calls for the communication between > gateway and key manager. The default communication protocol of key manager > is Thrift. You can find more information on that from here > <http://thrift.apache.org/static/files/thrift-20070401.pdf> as well. > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Thrift > [2] https://thrift.apache.org/ > [3] https://github.com/apache/thrift > > > Regards, > > *Dushani Wellappili* > Software Engineer - WSO2 > > Email : dusha...@wso2.com > Mobile : +94779367571 > Web : https://wso2.com/ > > > > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:11 AM Randy Adams <randyadamspar...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> When reading through wso2 documentation I see that two protocols called >> 'Thrift' and 'Binary' are used for certain communication scenarios in API >> Manager. i.e. Throttle data publishing, Key Validation. [1] >> >> But I cannot see any outside external sources about these two protocols. >> So are these two protocols, just WSO2 Specific ( introduced by WSO2) ? If >> not, please provide references describing about these two protocols. >> >> [1] >> https://docs.wso2.com/display/AM210/Deploying+WSO2+API-M+in+a+Distributed+Setup#single-Key-Manager-GW >> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> Randy >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> Dev@wso2.org >> http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev >> > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > -- Regards*,* *Viduranga Gunarathne* *Software Engineer* *WSO2 (Pvt) Ltd.* *Mobile : *+94712437484 *Email : *vidura...@wso2.com *Web : *http://wso2.com *Blog : *http://medium.com/vlgunarathne <http://wso2.com/signature>
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