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Updated on 2022-02-21 GMT+08:00
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Solution Overview

Solution Background

In some large enterprises that use ROMA Connect to digitalize their service systems, different subsidiaries or departments have their own ROMA Connect instances based on independent maintenance requirements. The service systems of each subsidiary or department are connected to their own ROMA Connect instances and share digital assets through APIs.

  • Because subsidiaries or departments are independent from each other, ROMA Connect instances may belong to different VPCs, and each ROMA Connect instance has its own access address. To access the open APIs of other subsidiaries or departments through the intranet, a subsidiary or department needs to connect to multiple VPCs and access multiple addresses. The operation configuration is complex.
  • Different subsidiaries or departments define different API authentication modes and formats when opening APIs. When a subsidiary or department needs to access the open APIs of other subsidiaries or departments, different authentication information is required, which increases the difficulty in sharing digital assets between subsidiaries or departments.

Solutions

APIC provides the API cascading capability to cascade the APIs to be opened by all subsidiaries or departments of an enterprise to a ROMA Connect instance. The ROMA Connect instance functions as the service openness platform of the enterprise. All subsidiaries or departments call the APIs of the service openness platform to obtain shared digital assets, implementing unified call entrance and unified authentication information, improving the sharing efficiency of digital assets, and reducing the sharing difficulty.

This section describes how to use the API cascading capability integrated by the service to cascade the APIs of the ROMA Connect instances of subsidiaries A and B to the ROMA Connect instance of the HQ. The ROMA Connect instance of the HQ is used as the service openness platform. All digital assets are shared externally through the service openness platform.