How to use IBM App Connect with APIs, web services, and connectors that are discovered or imported

In addition to applications, the IBM® App Connect catalog can include imported APIs, SOAP web services, and community connectors. You can add these imported resources as target applications to your flows in the same way as other connectors in the catalog.

You can import or discover the following types of APIs, web services, and connectors.

Discovered APIs from IBM API Connect

If IBM App Connect and IBM API Connect are part of the same IBM Cloud Pak for Integration deployment, you can discover APIs that are published to Products in API Connect and then import these APIs into App Connect. You must have access to an App Connect Designer instance (of type Integration design) and an API Connect instance (of type API management), which are deployed to the IBM Cloud Pak Platform UI in your cluster. The conditions for unified authoring must also be met.

For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect to discover and import APIs from IBM API Connect.

Imported APIs from OpenAPI documents

You can import OpenAPI documents into App Connect as APIs, and then call these APIs from your flows.

For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with APIs imported from OpenAPI documents.

Imported SOAP web services

You can import WSDL or .zip files that contain definitions for SOAP web services into App Connect, and then call these web services from your flows.

For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with SOAP web services.

Imported community connectors

IBM Automation Explorer provides a repository of shared assets to help you automate your work. These assets include community connectors that App Connect users create and share. You can download published community connectors and import them into App Connect to use as custom connectors.

For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with community connectors.

Tip: In addition to using imported or discovered APIs and web services to invoke operations, you can also use the invoke method for the HTTP connector to call API endpoints. For more information, see How to use IBM App Connect with HTTP.