Introduction¶
Ballerina Integrator is a powerful low-code integration platform built on top of the Ballerina programming language. It’s designed to help developers quickly build, deploy, and manage integration solutions with minimal boilerplate and maximum productivity. Whether you're working with APIs, messaging systems, databases, or SaaS platforms, Ballerina Integrator offers first-class language support and built-in tooling to make integration seamless and efficient.
Whether you’re modernizing legacy systems or building cloud-native services, Ballerina Integrator provides a productive and scalable path to integration, helping teams drive digital transformation with clarity, speed, and confidence.
Low-code integration development¶
Ballerina Integrator offers a user-friendly, streamlined environment for building integrations with minimal coding, accessible to both experienced developers and beginners. Here’s how Ballerina Integrator’s low-code features simplify integration development:
- Design visually: Ballerina Integrator’s interface lets users design integrations visually, simplifying flow creation and management.
- Pre-built connectors: Ballerina Integrator offers connectors for easy integration with various systems and services.
- Low-code and pro-code support: Ballerina Integrator allows seamless switching between low-code and pro-code, enabling visual design with optional custom coding.
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Deploy anywhere: Ballerina Integrator supports deployment to the cloud or on-premises environment, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
AI-assisted development¶
Ballerina Integrator leverages AI to streamline coding tasks, improve code quality, and reduce time on error-prone processes. Here’s how Ballerina Integrator’s AI capabilities make a difference:
- Code suggestions and autocompletion: Ballerina Integrator’s AI provides context-aware suggestions, helping developers code faster with real-time prompts for methods, properties, and configurations.
- Error detection and fix recommendations: AI identifies errors and suggests fixes early, enhancing code quality and minimizing debugging needs.
- Pattern recognition and code optimization: Ballerina Integrator’s AI detects code patterns and suggests optimizations, boosting performance and aiding code standardization.
- Natural language code search and commands: Developers can search for code snippets or methods using natural language, reducing documentation time and accelerating onboarding.
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Smart refactoring and code restructuring: Ballerina Integrator’s AI suggests refactoring options, enabling a cleaner, more maintainable codebase.
Leverage the power of Ballerina¶
Ballerina Integrator uses Ballerina, a language designed for seamless integration development, making API-driven, cloud-native workflows simpler and more efficient. Ballerina offers:
- Integration-centric syntax: Optimized syntax with constructs like services, data types, and data mappers for clear API orchestration.
- Cloud-native design: Supports HTTP, WebSocket, gRPC, and Kafka for API-first, microservices-ready development.
- Visual flow representation: Graphical views that show data flow and logic for complex workflows.
- Observability and resilience: Built-in tracing, metrics, and logging for efficient monitoring.
- Unified data handling: Simplifies data transformations for diverse integrations.
- Testing and deployment tools: Integrated tools for scalable, reliable cloud deployment.