Upgrading From SOAP to RESTful in 5 Minutes – Tyk: a step-by-step guide to using body transformations in Tyk

The tutorial by Jennifer Craig demonstrates how to convert an existing SOAP web service into a RESTful service using Tyk, a tool that facilitates this transformation without coding. By leveraging the Tyk dashboard, users can quickly expose SOAP services as JSON-based RESTful services through body transformations. The process involves importing APIs using a WSDL, adding body transformations, modifying headers to change content types, and testing the new endpoint. This approach allows users to create a RESTful facade over a SOAP service, enabling modern web applications to access legacy systems efficiently. The tutorial highlights the simplicity and speed of this transformation, emphasizing that it can be done within minutes with minimal resources and no need for coding, making it production-ready rapidly.