FDP-94: Added README

Signed-off-by: Sander Verbruggen <[email protected]>

README.md

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+# GXF Soap bridge
+
+This component can be used to bridge gaps between environments.
+The GXF platform doesn't have to reside on a single location/namespace/network zone.
+To make this bridge seamless it acts like a proxy. It will accept your SOAP call, send it over Kafka to the other end
+and re-issue the SOAP request over there.
+
+# Kafka communication - Example
+
+![](docs/proxy.svg)
+
+- `Servce X` will try to call Service Y. You've configured X to make the request to the proxy instead
+- `Proxy A` will
+    - store the HTTP connection used to receive the request and keep it open
+    - receive the SOAP body and some meta data
+    - make a message object of it
+    - sign this message
+    - and send it over the `web_requests` Kafka topic
+- `Proxy B` will
+    - receive the message from the Kafka topic `web_requests`
+    - check the signature
+    - unwrap the message
+    - use the SOAP body to do the SOAP request to `Service Y` and receive a SOAP result body
+    - make a message object of that result body
+    - sign this message
+    - and send it over the `web_responses` Kafka topic
+- `Proxy A` will then
+    - receive the message from the Kafka topic `web_responses`
+    - check the signature
+    - unwrap the message
+    - find the stored HTTP connection that was used to initiate this request
+    - write the SOAP result body to the HTTP response
+- `Service X` will receive a SOAP response not even knowing it talked to a proxy
+
+## Notifications ("The other way around")
+
+You can also configure this to work the other way around; `Service Y` calling `Service X`.
+In GXF terms, this is called a notification.
+Each proxy instance can act as both proxy start and end point as seen in the image above.

application/src/main/resources/application-dev.yml

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 management:
   server:
     port: 8888
-  #    ssl:
-  #      enabled: false
-  #      client-auth: none
   endpoints:
     web:
       exposure: