Oracle API Platform Cloud Service: Design-First approach and using Oracle Apiary by Marc Lameriks

At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camps VII 2017 in Lisbon last year, at the end of august, I attended the API Cloud Platform Service & Integration Cloud Service bootcamp.

In a series of article’s I will give a high level overview of what you can do with Oracle API Platform Cloud Service. The version used of Oracle API Platform CS was Release 17.3.3 — August 2017.

See https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/paas/api-platform-cloud/whats-new/index.html to learn about the new and changed features of Oracle API Platform CS in the latest release.

In preparation of creating an API Blueprint document, I took a closer look at Oracle REST Data Services and used the RESTful Services feature in Oracle SQL Developer, to generate example JSON payload’s based on some tables in the “HR’ schema. For more information about this, see my article “Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS)”.
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In this first article in the series about Oracle API Platform CS, the focus will be on the Design-First approach and using Oracle Apiary.

Short overview of Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

Oracle API Platform Cloud Service enables companies to thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing the full API lifecycle from design and standardization to documenting, publishing, testing and managing APIs. These tools provide API developers, managers, and users an end-to-end platform for designing, prototyping. Through the platform, users gain the agility needed to support changing business demands and opportunities, while having clear visibility into who is using APIs for better control, security and monetization of digital assets.
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Architecture

Management Portal:
APIs are managed, secured, and published using the Management Portal. The Management Portal is hosted on the Oracle Cloud, managed by Oracle, and users granted API Manager privileges have access.

Gateways:
API Gateways are the runtime components that enforce all policies, but also help in collecting data for analytics. The gateways can be deployed anywhere – on premise, on Oracle Cloud or to any third party cloud providers.

Developer Portal:
After an API is published, Application Developers use the Developer Portal to discover, register, and consume APIs. The Developer Portal can be customized to run either on the Oracle Cloud or directly in the customer environment on premises. Read the complete article here.

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