We wrote a configuration management broker that speaks our own simplified WSDL to clients and implements iControl on the back end. This allows it to leverages enterprise standards and authentication and authorization stores, and enables us to be cross-platform on the back-end, integrating other vendors' appliances as needed without changing the front-end.
Our WSDL service distills the essence of ADC concepts down to what our clients are interested in doing (Creating and modifying virtuals, pools, and services) so that users wishing to write integrations against the broker don't need to know anything specific about the devices or even what brand or model they are.
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