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You can manage the lifecycle of Web applications you create in WSO2 create in WSO2 App Manager as described below.

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Introduction to app lifecycle management

The application (app) approval process involves all the states in an application lifecycle from creation to retirement. Your actions are restricted based on the permissions that are assigned to you. The following topics illustrate the application approval process.

App lifecycle management action definitions

 You can carry out the following actions following actions in the application approval process.

ActionDefinition
Submit

The application creator submits the newly created apps to be reviewed.

Approve

The reviewer approves the apps that pass the review process.

Reject

The reviewer rejects mobile apps that fail the review process.

Publish

The publisher publishes the approved apps. All published apps are visible in the App Store.

Unpublish

The publisher un-publishes apps if required. Unpublished apps are temporarily removed from the App Store but are supported by App Manager. Furthermore, you can re-publish these apps to the Store whenever needed.

Depreciate

The publisher deprecates mobile apps. All deprecated apps are automatically removed from the Store, to stop all new installations. However, these mobile apps are supported by App Manager.

Retire

The publisher retires apps. Retired apps are not supported by App Manager in the future. In such instances, all retired apps are automatically removed from the Store, to stop all new installations.

App lifecycle management based on user roles

The transitions in the app approval process, together with the permissions needed for each state are listed as follows:

Transition ProcessAllowed RolesAllowed Actions
Creating a new appAdministrator
Internal/Creator		Publish
Submitting newly created apps

Administrator
Internal/Creator

Submit
Reviewing submitted appsAdministratorApprove/
Reject 
Publishing approved appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Publish
Re-submitting rejected appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Submit
Unpublishing published appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Unpublish
Re-publishing unpublished appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Publish
Deprecating unpublished appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Deprecate
Deprecating published appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Deprecate
Retiring deprecated appsAdministrator
Internal/Publisher		Retire

App lifecycle management states

After adding the application to the publisher, you need to promote its lifecycle state to the published state, to publish it

as follows

. Take a look at the diagram given below to get an understanding of the app management lifecycle.

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Once an application is added to App Manager, it is added to the registry as an asset, and a lifecycle is attached to the application. The lifecycle state for a newly created application is Created. You can change the state to In-Review, which will automatically initialize a workflow event and then Approve the application or Reject the application, which will bring it back to the in-review state. Once an admin user approves the workflow event, then the lifecycle state moves to the Published state and will appear in the Store for you to consume.

Once an application reaches the Published state, an API resource will be created under the <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/deployment/server/synapse-configs/default/api/ directory. Name of the file will be {app created user}–{app name}_v{version}.xml. This is the REST endpoint, which will be invoked once the gateway URL is accessed.