Did you know that you could invoke any service from command line? This works with both Zato’s own API and the services you develop. Depending on how a service is implemented/what it’s exposed through, it can be done with JSON, plain XML, SOAP or any other data format a service accepts.

The post introduces Zato, an open-source integration platform in Python, and shows you how to integrate Django, or indeed any piece of Python software, with Zato and external web services using nothing but plain Python objects.