About API Manager

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 1.3.0 is the successor of version 1.2.0 and has several enhancements and defect fixes included in it. For a list of fixed defects in this release, refer to : WSO2 API Manager 1.3.0 - Fixed Issues .

New Features and Enhancements:

A new role by the name DefaultglobalAPIPublisherRole is now available, enabling all API publishers to view and manage a shared pool of APIs.
New and improved self-subscription form for the API Store with capability to plug an external BPEL workflow to the user creation process of API Manager.
Resource-level authentication can be set to API resources in a simple point-and-click.
More options for personalizing the look and feel of the API Store through the addition of a new default theme which can be installed right out-of-the-box.
Throttling is now available at the application-level too, enabling you to configure a throttling implementation that best suits your infrastructure and security concerns.
In-built REST client to test APIs.
API monetization capability.
i18n support.
Capability to track runtime statistics of API invocations through Google Analytics.

Known Issues

Refer to the following link in WSO2 Oxygen Tank: WSO2 API Manager 1.3.0 - 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 following mailing lists:

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.