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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