Businesses expect capability to build and nurture an effective and active community of subscribers and consumers from any API management solution. As a result, the WSO2 API Manager has been designed with various community features, implemented after careful research and study of the customer needs and industry expectations.
WSO2 has identified a range of functional and non-functional requirements that directly impact the social and community aspects of the WSO2 API Manager. While some of them are still not implemented in the current version, we hope to introduce them in near-future releases, and also keep improving the already implemented community features with the changing business needs.
Described in brief detail below are prominent community features of the API Manager version 1.0.0:
Documentation
Capability to associate comprehensive documents with an API so that API consumers get a better understanding of its use in implementing their solutions. Shown below is how documentation of a published API is visible to consumers through the API Store.
All documents have unique URLs to help better SEO support.
For more information on various types of documents, how to add and maintain them, refer to section Adding API Documentation.