The WSO2 API Manager 1.1.1 Released!

The WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.1 of the Open Source API Manager.

WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs proven SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance, API security and API monitoring. It combines some of the most powerful and mature components of the WSO2's state-of-the-art Carbon platform to deliver a smooth and end-to-end API management experience while catering to both API publisher and API consumer requirements.

WSO2 API Manager is comprised of several modules.

• API provider: Define new APIs and manage them
• API store: Browse published APIs and subscribe to them
• API gateway: The underlying API runtime based on WSO2 ESB

WSO2 API Manager is developed on top of the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon platform (Middleware a' la carte), an OSGi based framework that provides seamless modularity to your SOA via componentization. This release also contains many new features and a range of optional components (add-ons) that can be installed to customize the behavior of the API Manager. Further, any existing features of the product which are not required in your environment can be easily removed using the underlying provisioning framework of Carbon. In brief, WSO2 API Manager can be fully customized and tailored to meet your exact API management needs.

For more information on WSO2 API Manager please visit wso2.com/products/api-manager. Also take a look at the online product documentation.

How to Run

1. Extract the downloaded zip
2. Go to the bin directory in the extracted folder
3. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
4. Launch a web browser and navigate to localhost:9763/publisher to access the API provider webapp
5. Navigate to localhost:9763/store to access the API store
6. Use "admin", "admin" as the username and password to login as an admin
7. If you need to start the OSGi console with the server use the property -DosgiConsole when starting the server. The INSTALL.txt file found on the installation directory will give you a comprehensive set of options and properties that can be passed into the startup script

Bug fixes done for WSO2 API Manager 1.1.1

This release of API Manager comes as a patch release as this contains two critical bug fixes,which were found in previously released API Manager 1.1.0.

• [APIMANAGER-778] - Displays an error log,when trying to invoke a publsihed API through curl/restClient
• [APIMANAGER-779] - Error while invoking an API if we change KeyValidatorClient as WSClient from api-manager.xml

Key Features of WSO2 API Manager

Following is a categorization of the core features supported by WSO2 API Manager based on the target user group.

• API Publisher:
  • Publish APIs to external consumers and partners, as well as internal users; SOAP and REST services are supported
  • Manage API versions (several versions can be deployed in parallel)
  • Govern the API lifecycle (publish, deprecate, retire)
  • Attach documentation (files, external URLs) to APIs
  • Apply Security policies to APIs (authentication, authorization)
  • Attach SLAs
  • Provision and Manage API keys
  • Track consumers per API
  • Monitor API usage and performance, SLA compliance
  • Gather consumers requirements
• API Consumers:
  • Find useful APIs by browsing or searching through the API Store: view top rated, top used and featured APIs
  • Explore API documentation and ask questions to publisher
  • Register applications and obtain API keys
  • Subscribe to API changes and receive news
  • Evaluate APIs, rate APIs, and share comments
  • Request features and improvements from publishers
  • Participate in online forums
  • OAuth2 support for API access

Known Issues

All the open issues pertaining to WSO2 API Manager are reported at the following location:

• WSO2 API Manager open issues

How You Can Contribute

Mailing Lists

Join our mailing list and correspond with the developers directly.

• Developer List : dev@wso2.org | Subscribe | Mail Archive
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Reporting Issues

We encourage you to report issues, documentation faults and feature requests regarding WSO2 API Manager through the publicAPI Manager JIRA. You can use the Carbon JIRA to report any issues related to the Carbon base framework or associated Carbon components.

Support

We are committed to ensuring that your enterprise middleware deployment is completely supported from evaluation to production. Our unique approach ensures that all support leverages our open development methodology and is provided by the very same engineers who build the technology.

For more details and to take advantage of this unique opportunity please visitwso2.com/support.

To learn more about WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 support offerings please visit wso2.com/products/api-manager.

-- The WSO2 API Manager Team --