1. Introducing
WSO2 API Manager
Hiranya Jayathilaka, Sumedha Rubasinghe
WSO2
June, 2012

2. WSO2
● Founded in 2005 by acknowledged leaders in XML, Web
Services Technologies & Standards and Open Source.
Primary contributors to Apache Web Services projects started
in 2001
● Producing entire middleware platform 100% open source
under Apache license
● Business model is to sell comprehensive support &
maintenance for our products
● Technology OEM’d by IBM, Progress, Software AG, Alcatel,
EMC, and CA
● Venture funded by Intel Capital and Quest Software.
● Global corporation with offices in Palo Alto, USA
Portsmouth, UK & Colombo, Sri Lanka
● 150+ employees and growing.

3. APIs
● An API is a business capability delivered
over the Internet to internal or external
consumers
○ Network accessible function
○ Available using standard web protocols
○ With well-defined interfaces
○ Designed for access by third-parties
○ Scope
■ Internal
■ Between Partners
■ Between Customers
■ Open

4. Managed APIs
● Actively advertised
● Subscribe-able
● Available with SLAs
● Secured, authenticated, authorized and
protected
● Monitored
● Monetized with analytics

5. Challenges In Managing APIs
● API Provisioning
○ Publishing
○ Key Management
○ Versioning
● Monitoring
● Usage Tracking
● Monetization

6. APIs - Protocols / Styles / Formats
● SOAP / REST
● XML / JSON
source: http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/06/09/new-job-requirement-experience-
building-restful-apis/
source: https://devcentral.f5.
com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/04/27/the-stealthy-
ascendancy-of-json.aspx

7. WSO2 Platform & APIs

8. WSO2 Platform & APIs
● Proven platform for :
○ creating / hosting APIs
○ Achieving scalability
○ Managing life cycle
○ Configuration Governance
○ Security
○ Monitoring
○ Application Development

9. WSO2 Case Studies http://wso2.com/casestudies

10. WSO2 API Manager
● API Publishing, API Store, Gateway & Statistics
● Only Open source API Management platform
● Apache 2 License
● Part of award winning WSO2 Carbon platform
● Built using proven WSO2 components
○ Enterprise Service Bus
○ Identity Server
○ Governance Registry
○ Business Activity Monitor
○ Jaggery
● Latest version - 1.0.0-ALPHA

11. WSO2 API Manager
● API Manager leverages WSO2 proven
components:
○ WSO2 ESB
■ used as API Gateway by eBay, AAA, and others.
eBay handles > 1 billion API calls/day
○ WSO2 Governance Registry
■ used by British Airways, Intermountain
Healthcare, and many others
○ WSO2 Identity Server
■ used by Citigroup, Federal Home Loan Bank of
SF, US Navy and others

12. WSO2 API Manager - Components
Monitoring & Monetization

13. Demo time ...

14. Deployment Choices
● All-in-one
○ API Store, Provider, Gateway - single JVM
○ Business Activity Monitor - separate JVM

15. Deployment For Scalability
● Distributed
○ API Store, Provider & Gateway can be deployed
independently
○ Deciding factors:
■ Load
■ Enterprise security policies
■ Usage patterns
● eg: only internal department publishes APIs

16. Future Directions

17. Release Plan
● Beta : 1st week of July
● GA : last week of July

18. Join Us
● WSO2 Architecture List
○ http://wso2.markmail.org/search/list:org.wso2.
architecture
○ subscribe : http://wso2.org/mail/
● API Manager JIRA
○ https://wso2.org/jira/browse/APISTORE
● Source
○ http://svn.wso2.
org/repos/wso2/carbon/platform/trunk/component
s/apimgt

19. WSO2

20. WSO2 engagement model
● QuickStart -
● Development
● Support
● Development
● Services
● Production
● Support
● Turnkey Solutions
○ WSO2 Mobile Services Solution
○ WSO2 FIX Gateway Solution
○ WSO2 SAP Gateway Solution

21. Questions ?

22. Thank You