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sidebar_position: 2 title: Dubbo Plugin keywords: [“dubbo”] description: dubbo plugin

Explanation

• Dubbo is a plugin that converts http protocol into Dubbo protocol and it is also the key for gateway to realize dubbo generic service.
• Dubbo plugin needs to cooperate with metadata to realize dubbo calls, please refer to: metaData.
• Apache dubbo and alibaba dubbo users both use the same plugin.

  <!--if you use dubbo start this-->
   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.dromara</groupId>
       <artifactId>soul-spring-boot-starter-plugin-alibab-dubbo</artifactId>
       <version>${last.version}</version>
   </dependency>

   <dependency>
       <groupId>org.dromara</groupId>
       <artifactId>soul-spring-boot-starter-plugin-apache-dubbo</artifactId>
       <version>${last.version}</version>
   </dependency>

Plugin Setting

• In soul-admin --> plugin management-> dubbo setting enable.

• In the configuration of dubbo plugin, the configuration is as follows: Configure the registration center of dubbo.

{"register":"zookeeper://localhost:2181"} or {"register":"nacos://localhost:8848"} 

• Plugin needs to cooperate with starter to take effect, please refer to: user-dubbo.

• Selectors and rules, please refer to: selector.

Metadata

• Every dubbo interface method corresponds to a piece of metadata, which can be found in soul-admin -->metadata management.
• Path: your http request.
• RPC extension parameters, corresponding to some configurations of dubbo interface; If you want to adjust, please modify here, which support json format like the following fields:

{"timeout":10000,"group":"",version":"","loadbalance":"","retries":1}