It is like the Paypal sandbox. There are external parties who build apps that call APIs. But then again, they don't want to call the real production API because that would lead to real transactions, in the payment gateway case, transfer of real money. So, Paypal has provided sandbox APIs, which are in production, for external parties to first use when they are building their apps.
The API lifecycle is an orthogonal concept. The developers of the API itself are the ones who are in concern when it comes to the API lifecycle. Paypal would have newer versions of its APIs in some non-production lifecycle stage, but they will not expose those for external parties to write apps against. Azeez On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Samisa Abeysinghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:28 AM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sandbox & production, are both environments in the production stage. The >> dev, QA & staging APIs are separately accessible to developers. There is >> only one sandbox. >> > > What is the difference between sandbox and staging? Why do I have to run > a separate sanbox cloud? > > If the same version is in production is in QA too, why cannot I use that > as an environment in my API-M for one group the staging for another and > production for still another? I have the cloud running anyway, why isn't my > API-M instance flexible? > > For e.g. we always share our milestone packs with the users. We can do the > same with the APIs. > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- *Afkham Azeez* Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ * <http://www.apache.org/>** email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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