Publishing and Governing APIs
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Creating a Store for your APIs | - Graphical experience similar to Android Marketplace or Apple App Store.
- Browse APIs by provider, tags or name.
- Self-registration to developer community to subscribe to APIs.
- Subscribe to APIs and manage subscriptions on per-application basis.
- Subscriptions can be at different service tiers based on expected usage levels.
- Role based access to API Store; manage public and private APIs.
- Manage subscriptions at a per-developer level.
- Browse API documentation, download helpers for easy consumption.
- Comment on and rate APIs.
- Forum for discussing API usage issues (Available soon in future version).
- Try APIs directly on the store front.
- Internationalization (i18n) support.
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Publishing and Governing API Usage | - Publish APIs to external consumers and partners, as well as internal users.
- Supports publishing multiple protocols including SOAP, REST, JSON and XML style services as APIs
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- and deployment status by version.
- Govern the API
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- lifecycle (publish, deprecate, retire).
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- Attach documentation (files, external URLs) to APIs.
- Apply Security policies to APIs (authentication, authorization).
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- Associate API available to system defined service tiers.
- Provision and Manage API keys.
- Track consumers per API.
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Consuming APIs through the API Store
- User-friendly graphical experience of the API Store.
- Find useful APIs by browsing or searching through the API Store.
- Self-registration to developer community to subscribe to APIs.
- Comment on and rate APIs and view top-rated, most used and featured APIs.
- Explore API documentation and download helpers for easy consumption.
- Register applications and obtain API keys.
- Evaluate APIs, rate APIs, and share comments.
- OAuth2 support for API access.
- Utilizes type support granted by OAuth2 resource owner credentials.
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- OAuth2.
- Extremely high performance pass-through message routing with sub-millisecond latency.
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- Enforce rate limiting and throttling policies for APIs by consumer.
- Horizontally scalable with easy deployment into cluster using proven routing infrastructure.
- Scales to millions of developers/users.
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- Capture all statistics and
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- push to pluggable analytics system.
- Configure API routing policies with capabilities of WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
- Powered by WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
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- sign up for API consumption.
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- account including password reset.
- Developer interaction with APIs via comments and ratings.
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- Support for developer communication via forums (Available soon in future version).
- Powered by WSO2 Identity Server.
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| Governing Complete API Lifecycle |
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- from cradle to grave: create, publish, block, deprecate and retire.
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- Publish both production and sandbox keys for APIs to enable easy developer testing.
- Publish APIs to partner networks such as ProgrammableWeb (Available soon in future version).
- Powered by WSO2 Governance Registry.
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Monitoring API Usage and Performance |
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| - All API usage published to pluggable analytics framework.
- Out of the box support for WSO2 Business Activity Monitor and Google Analytics.
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- View metrics by user, API and more.
- Customized reporting via
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- plugging reporting engines.
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Pluggable, Extensible & Themeable:
- All components are highly customizable through styles, themes and open source code.
- Storefront implemented with Jaggery (jaggeryjs.org) for easy customization.
- Pluggable to third party analytics systems and billing systems (Available soon in future version).
- Pluggable to existing user stores via JDBC and LDAP.
- Components usable separately – storefront can be used to front APIs gateway via third party gateways such as Intel ServiceExpress.
Easily Deployable in Enterprise Setting
- Powered by WSO2 Business Activity Monitor.
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| Deploying with Ease in Enterprise Settings | - Role based access control for managing users and their authorization levels.
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- Store front can be deployed in DMZ for external access with
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- Publisher inside the firewall for private control.
- Different user stores for developer focused store-front and internal operations in publisher.
- Integrates with enterprise identity systems including LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.
- Gateway can be deployed in DMZ with controlled access to WSO2 Identity Server (for authentication/authorization) and governance database behind firewall.
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