As an organization implements SOA, it becomes beneficial to expose its core processes, data and services as APIs to the public. External parties can mash up these APIs in innovative ways to build new solutions. A business can increase its growth potential and partnership advancements by facilitating developments that are powered by its APIs. For example, the WSO2 Gadget Server leverages the Google Gadget API, ensuring that users of WSO2 Gadget Server can easily develop and deploy their own or third-party Google gadgets in it, in a simple, decentralized manner.
However, leveraging APIs in a collaborative manner introduces new challenges in exercising control, establishing trust, security and regulation. As a result, proper API management is crucial. The WSO2 API Manager overcomes these challenges through a set of features for API creation, publishing, life cycle management, versioning, monetization, governance, security etc. It facilitates two Web interfaces for development teams to deploy and monitor APIs and offer managed APIs through an API Store, which enables consumers to subscribe to and utilize APIs.
The WSO2 API Manager is an on-going project with continuous improvements and enhancements introduced with each new release to address new business challenges and customer expectations. WSO2 invites users, developers and enthusiasts to get involved or get the assistance of our development teams at many different levels through online forums, mailing lists and support options. We are committed to ensure you a fulfilling user experience at any level of involvement with the WSO2 API Manager.
What is new in this Release
The WSO2 API Manager version 1.4.0 is the successor of version 1.3.0 and has several enhancements and defect fixes included in it. For a list of fixed defects in this release, refer to : WSO2 API Manager 1.4.0 - Fixed Issues .
New Features and Enhancements:
- Single sign-on enabled so that users now have to sing in once to access both API Publisher and API Store web applications. Configuration details can be found in section, Single Sign-on with SAML 2.0.
- Performance improvements as the pass-through transport is now supported for all scenarios. It is no longer limited to pass-though proxy only.
Known Issues
Refer to the following link in WSO2 Oxygen Tank: WSO2 API Manager 1.4.0 - Known Issues.
Community Resources
WSO2 is willing to provide you guidance for any technical issues or questions regarding the WSO2 API Manager product. You can communicate with the API Manager development team directly using the relevant mailing lists mentioned here: http://wso2.org/mail.
WSO2 encourages you to report issues and enhancement requests for WSO2 API Manager using the publicJIRA available at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE . You can also track their resolutions and comment on the progress.
Questions regarding the Application Server can also be raised through http://stackoverflow.com. Ensure that you tag the question with appropriate keywords such as WSO2 and API Manager so that our team can easily find your questions and provide answers.
For tutorials, articles, Webinars and similar resources, visit the WSO2 Oxygen Tank and search under t he Resources menu.
Support Options
WSO2 also offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support during normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support. WSO2 is committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that support leverages the open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the products. For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support.