WSO2 API Manager team is pleased to announce the 1.0.0-ALPHA release of the world's first open source API management platform. This release is now available for download at http://dist.wso2.org/products/api-manager/1.0.0-alpha/wso2am-1.0.0-ALPHA.zip .
WSO2 API Manager is a platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring APIs. It employs tried and tested SOA best practices to solve a wide range of API management challenges such as API provisioning, API governance and API security. WSO2 API Manager combines some of the most powerful and mature components of the WSO2 Carbon platform to deliver a smooth and end-to-end API management experience while catering to both API publisher and API consumer needs. WSO2 API Manager is released under the Apache Software License 2.0 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>. *Key Features* For API authors and publishers: - 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 - Track consumers per API - Monitor API usage, performance and SLA compliance For API consumers: - Find useful APIs by browsing or searching through the API Store: view top rated, top used and featured APIs - Explore API documentation - Register applications and obtain API keys - Evaluate APIs, rate APIs, and share comments - OAuth2 support for API access *Installing* * * The only prerequisite required to try this release out is an installation of JDK 1.6 (Sun/Oracle JDK 1.6.0_23 or higher recommended) - Download the WSO2 API Manager 1.0.0-ALPHA release from http://dist.wso2.org/products/api-manager/1.0.0-alpha/wso2am-1.0.0-ALPHA.zip - Extract the downloaded archive - Go to the 'bin' directory and execute wso2server.sh (Unix/Linux) or wso2server.bat (Windows) - Point your web browser to http://localhost:9763/apiprovider or http://localhost:9763/apistore to get started *How to Run Samples?* * * This release of the WSO2 API Manager comes with 3 complete samples. Following steps explain how to get these samples up and running: 1. Download and extract wso2am-1.0.0-ALPHA.zip 2. Go to 'samples' folder. 3. README.txt inside each of the sample folder provides complete instructions on deploying & testing sample scenarios. 4. To learn how to configure statistics monitoring, read <WSO2AM-HOME>/StatClient/README.txt You need to have Apache Ant 1.8 or higher to run the samples. *Known Issues* All the known issues related this release are reported in the WSO2 API Manager JIRA<https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10682> . *Bug Fixes and New Features in this Release* Bug - [APISTORE-81 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-81>] - When publishing an API - we should be able to day for which roles this API would be available to - [APISTORE-87 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-87>] - All inputs to the API Add/Edit pages should be santized - [APISTORE-97 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-97>] - In add API page, Browse button of 'WSDL/WADL' field doesn't work. - [APISTORE-114 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-114>] - echo service fails in try-it - [APISTORE-189 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-189>] - A user must not be able to rate an API if they have not subscribed to it. - [APISTORE-202 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-202>] - Confirm before deleting API docs - [APISTORE-256 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-256>] - Many Exceptions Thrown by API Usage Handler When BAM is Down - [APISTORE-295 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-295>] - When Saving a documentation entry, the focus always come back to the General page - [APISTORE-314 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-314>] - Samples Data Installation Does not work - [APISTORE-315 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-315>] - User's Role Management Not Enforced - [APISTORE-316 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-316>] - APIs must use lifecycle management from G-Reg - [APISTORE-321 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-321>] - Response Times are not shown at all if one of the API fails to be called Improvement - [APISTORE-148 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-148>] - API Store consumer should be able to self-register - [APISTORE-174 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-174>] - New API add form with API Provider needs context sensitive help - [APISTORE-184 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-184>] - Rename 'Srvice Bus" menu name into "API"s in management console - [APISTORE-186 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-186>] - Remove metadata and reources from management console - [APISTORE-318 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-318>] - Add Secure Vault Support to the api-manager.xml New Feature - [APISTORE-270 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-270>] - Provision to make API keys foward compatible when a new version of API is available - [APISTORE-272 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-272>] - Provide deprecate all older API versions option - [APISTORE-275 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-275>] - Self registration functionality for API subscriber - [APISTORE-317 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-317>] - Support a Master/Super Key Concept at the Application Level - [APISTORE-319 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-319>] - Option to Deprecate Older Versions of an API, When a New Version is Published - [APISTORE-320 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-320>] - Option to Make API Keys Forward Compatible Task - [APISTORE-164 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-164>] - Review the package name - [APISTORE-304 <https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE-304>] - Implement View/Read Documentation Feature in API Store *Feel Like Contributing?* We highly appreciate your feedback on this release. Please report any issues at https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE. If you want to see a particular feature changed or improved, drop us a mail at [email protected] or [email protected]. Full source code of this release can be checked out from https://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/tags/apimgt/1.0.0-alpha/ Thanks, - WSO2 API Manager Team - -- Hiranya Jayathilaka Senior Technical Lead; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
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