WSO2 API Manager
WSO2 API Manager is a complete solution for publishing APIs, creating and managing a developer community and for scalably routing API traffic. It leverages proven, production-ready, integration, security and governance components from the WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, WSO2 Identity Server, and WSO2 Governance Registry. In addition, as it is also powered by the WSO2 Business Activity Monitor, the WSO2 API Manager is ready for massively scalable deployment immediately.
As with all WSO2 products, the WSO2 API Manager is 100% open source. Designed for easy customization, it is extensively pluggable to integrate with existing infrastructure in your enterprise.
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Create a Store of all Available APIs:
- Graphical experience similar to Android Marketplace or Apple App Store.
- Browse APIs by provider, tags or name.
- Self-registration to developer community to subscribe to APIs.
- Subscribe to APIs and manage subscriptions on per-application basis.
- Subscriptions can be at different service tiers based on expected usage levels.
- Manage subscriptions at a per-developer level.
- Browse API documentation, download helpers for easy consumption.
- Comment on and rate APIs.
- Forum for discussing API usage issues (Available soon in future version).
- Try APIs directly on the store front (Available soon in future version).
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Publishing and Governing API Use:
- Publish APIs to external consumers and partners, as well as internal users.
- Supports publishing multiple protocols including SOAP, REST, JSON and XML style services as APIs.
- Manage API versions and deployment status by version.
- Govern the API lifecycle (publish, deprecate, retire).
- Attach documentation (files, external URLs) to APIs.
- Apply Security policies to APIs (authentication, authorization).
- Associate API available to system defined service tiers.
- Provision and Manage API keys.
- Track consumers per API.
- One-click deployment to API Gateway for immediate publishing.
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Route API Traffic:
- Supports API authentication with OAuth2.
- Extremely high performance pass-through message routing with sub-millisecond latency.
- Enforce rate limiting and throttling policies for APIs by consumer.
- Horizontally scalable with easy deployment into cluster using proven routing infrastructure.
- Scales to millions of developers/users.
- Capture all statistics and push to pluggable analytics system.
- Configure API routing policies with capabilities of WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
- Powered by WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus.
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Manage Developer Community:
- Self-sign up for API consumption.
- Manage user account including password reset.
- Developer interaction with APIs via comments and ratings.
- Support for developer communication via forums (Available soon in future version).
- Powered by WSO2 Identity Server.
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Govern Complete API Lifecycle:
- Manage API lifecycle from cradle to grave: create, publish, block, deprecate and retire.
- Publish both production and sandbox keys for APIs to enable easy developer testing.
- Publish APIs to partner networks such as ProgrammableWeb (Available soon in future version).
- Powered by WSO2 Governance Registry.
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Monitor API Usage & Performance:
- All API usage published to pluggable analytics framework.
- Out of the box support for WSO2 Business Activity Monitor and Google Analytics (Available soon in future version).
- View metrics by user, API and more.
- Customized reporting via plugging reporting engines.
- Monitor SLA compliance.
- Powered by WSO2 Business Activity Monitor.
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Pluggable, Extensible & Themeable:
- All components are highly customizable thru styling, theming and open source code.
- Storefront implemented with Jaggery (jaggeryjs.org) for easy customization.
- Pluggable to third party analytics systems and billing systems (Available soon in future version).
- Pluggable to existing user stores including via JDBC and LDAP.
- Components usable separately – storefront can be used to front APIs gatewayed via third party gateways such as Intel ServiceExpress.
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Easily Deployable in Enterprise Setting:
- Role based access control for managing users and their authorization levels.
- Store front can be deployed in DMZ for external access with Publisher inside the firewall for private control.
- Different user stores for developer focused store-front and internal operations in publisher.
- Integrates with enterprise identity systems including LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory.
- Gateway can be deployed in DMZ with controlled access to WSO2 Identity Server (for authentication/authorization) and governance database behind firewall.
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- Getting Started Guide (PDF)
- Installaton Guide
- User Guide
- Samples
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Introducing WSO2 API Manager
Resources
- WSO2 Use Case: API Facade Pattern
- How to Build, Manage, and Promote APIs
- Managing API use case complexity
- Pinterest API and the Money Board
- How to add a new throttling tier to WSO2 API Manager?
- How to version APIs in WSO2 API Manager?
- How to subscribe to an API in WSO2 API Manager?
- WSO2 API Manager : anatomy of useful URLs – Level 1
- WSO2 API Management Platform Re-invents Software Delivery
- APIs and Beyond
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