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                                    WSO2 API Manager
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WSO2 API Manager is a powerful platform for creating, managing, consuming and monitoring web APIs. It combines tried and tested SOA best practices with modern day API management principles to solve a wide range of enterprise challenges associated with API provisioning, governance and integration.

WSO2 API Manager consists of several loosely coupled modules.

    * API publisher
    * API store
    * API gateway
    * API Key Manager

The API publisher module allows API publishers to easily define APIs and manage them using a strong governance model which consists of well-established concepts such as versioning and lifecycles. API consumers can use the API store module to discover published, production-ready APIs and access them in a secure and reliable manner using unique API keys. The built-in API gateway module provides powerful tools to secure and control the load on individual APIs.

WSO2 API Manager is based on the revolutionary WSO2 Carbon [Middleware a' la carte] framework. All the major features have been developed as reusable Carbon components.

To learn more about WSO2 API Manager please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager.

Key Features

• API publishers:

  • Simple web-based UI for defining APIs
  • Easily modify existing APIs and move them across life cycle states
  • Specify and attach documentation to defined APIs
  • Create new versions of existing APIs
  • Specify SLAs under which each API is exposed to the consumers
  • Track and monitor API usage

• API consumers:

  • Rich web portal to discover published APIs
  • Create applications, subscribe and obtain API keys
  • Browse documentation and samples associated with each API
  • Try APIs on-line before using them
  • Rate APIs and comment on their features, usability and other related aspects

System Requirements

1. Minimum memory - 1GB
2. Processor - Pentium 800MHz or equivalent at minimum
3. Java SE Development Kit 1.6.0_24 or higher
4. The Management Console requires you to enable Javascript of the Web browser, with MS IE 6 and 7. In addition to JavaScript, ActiveX should also be enabled with IE. This can be achieved by setting your security level to medium or lower.
5. To compile and run the sample clients, an Ant version is required. Ant 1.7.0 version is recommended
6. To build WSO2 API Manager from the Source distribution, it is necessary that you have JDK 1.6.x version and Maven 3.0.0 or later

Installation & Running

1. Extract the wso2am-1.8.0.zip and go to the 'bin' directory
2. Run the wso2server.sh or wso2server.bat as appropriate
3. API Publisher web application is running at http://localhost:9763/publisher. You may login to the Publisher using the default administrator credentials (user: admin, pass: admin).
4. API Store web application is running at http://localhost:9763/store. You may login to the Store using the default administrator credentials (user: admin, pass: admin).

Documentation

On-line product documentation is available at: http://docs.wso2.org/wiki/display/AM180/WSO2+API+Manager+Documentation

Support

WSO2 Inc. offers a variety of development and production support programs, ranging from Web-based support up through normal business hours, to premium 24x7 phone support.

For additional support information please refer to http://wso2.com/support

For more information on WSO2 API Manager please visit http://wso2.com/products/api-manager

Known issues of WSO2 API Manager

All known issues of WSO2 API Manager are filed at:

https://wso2.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=10810

Issue Tracker

Help us make our software better. Please submit any bug reports or feature requests through the WSO2 JIRA system:

https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APIMANAGER

Crypto Notice

This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See http://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.

The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this Apache Software Foundation distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object code and source code.

The following provides more details on the included cryptographic software:

Apache Rampart : http://ws.apache.org/rampart/ Apache WSS4J : http://ws.apache.org/wss4j/ Apache Santuario : http://santuario.apache.org/ Bouncycastle : http://www.bouncycastle.org/

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