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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.

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.
• Manage API versions and deployment status by version.
• Govern the API lifecycle (publish, deprecate, retire).
• Attach documentation (files, external URLs) to APIs.
• Apply Security policies to APIs (authentication, authorization).
• Associate API available to system defined service tiers.
• Provision and Manage API keys.
• Track consumers per API.
• One-click deployment to API Gateway for immediate publishing.

Routing API Traffic

• Supports API authentication with OAuth2.
• Extremely high performance pass-through message routing with sub-millisecond latency.
• 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.
• Capture all statistics and push to pluggable analytics system.
• Configure API routing policies with capabilities of WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
• Powered by WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.

Managing the Community

• Self-sign up for API consumption.
• Manage user account including password reset.
• Developer interaction with APIs via comments and ratings.
• Support for developer communication via forums (Available soon in future version).
• Powered by WSO2 Identity Server.

• Manage API lifecycle from cradle to grave: create, publish, block, deprecate and retire.
• 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.

Monitoring API Usage and Performance

• All API usage published to pluggable analytics framework.
• Out of the box support for WSO2 Business Activity Monitor and Google Analytics.
• View metrics by user, API and more.
• Customized reporting via plugging reporting engines.
• Monitor SLA compliance.
• Powered by WSO2 Business Activity Monitor.

• Role based access control for managing users and their authorization levels.
• Store front can be deployed in DMZ for external access with 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.

• All components are highly customizable. You can change the styles and themes of the Web interfaces.
• 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 including via JDBC and LDAP.
• Components usable separately – storefront can be used to front APIs gatewayed via third party gateways such as Intel Expressway Service Gateway.