I have a working system with ESB (non-WSO2 product) already. I'm now trying to integrateWSO2 API Manager into my working system for 3rd party developer.
Is it possible to replace WSO2 ESB in API Manage with existing non-WSO2 ESB?
Yes, you can do that.
The ESB functionality is transparent no matter what is the brand of underlying product implementing it. The API Manager is going to store the endpoints, WSDLs, etc. and those are the same for every ESB implementation.
That's the "beauty" of SOA, its service-oriented, not vendor-oriented.
You can keep the ESB you are using as it is in your setup and use the API Manager to publish/subscribe/manage the API. Its perfectly a valid scenario
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We are using WSO2 API Manager for exposing and securing our API's.
Its working fine.
Now we have actually a lot of API's in WSO2 API Manager. It looks like a long list of API's. Now its hard to find an API and do some changes.
Is there any best practices for organizing them in API manager?May be group them based on functionality or url or anything like that.
Any inbuild support or suggestions?
WSO2 reached out to me in Twitter and told me to put a question here if I had one.
My client wants to customize (for now it only means changing the layout of things) the API Publisher and API Store from a WSO2 API Manager 2.0.0.
Since I know that inevitably we will get to the point where the changes are going to be profound and require external libraries for new functionality (we have a library of AngularJS code which I know they will want to use), I want to know:
What is the official, recommended way to customize and extend the web applications for the API Store and the API Publisher? I need to have version control, unit testing, etc.
Is there a way to move these web apps out of the APIM server and into their own server? All our UI applications are hosted in a specific server.
Realistically, how much change can I introduce before make making an awful mess?
Thank you.
You can create new themes and subthemes for API publisher and store UIs. You can refer docs here.
Please note that publisher and store apps are written in Jaggery. You need a Jaggery server to host Jaggery apps.
If you want to add more functionality to the UI, you can either write jaggery, or you'll have to write your own web application (maybe with AngularJS or any other). In that case, you can use APIM REST APIs to talk to APIM backend.
I am currently using WSO2 DSS to create RESTful APIs to access the databases.
I need DSS to perform OAuth authentication for every incoming request. Is there a way I can do it without using WSO2 API Manager or WSO2 ESB?
If I have to change the source code to implement this feature, which particular library should I be looking into?
For this scenario without using WSO2 API Manager you need use three products of WSO2 SOA Suite (ESB, IS, DSS). In other case you can add the WSO2 DSS as a feature to the WSO2 ESB, and use IS as key manager. Check this links and take your best decision.
http://wso2.com/library/tutorials/2015/05/tutorial-hosting-restful-web-services-using-oauth-with-the-wso2-platform-0/
https://www.yenlo.com/blog/wso2-tutorial-adding-wso2-data-services-server-dss-as-a-feature-to-the-wso2-esb
Is there any way to create a mash up service using WSO2 API Manager? My goal is to create two Web services, then generate some data on which business logic is applied. This final data then needs to be fed into a third Web service.
I think you can use Apache Camel to create a mashup API easily.
I am trying to build a POC using WSO2 middle ware that demonstrates API Management as well as ESB features. Will I need to download WSO2 Carbon as well as WSO2 API Manager? Or does WSO2 API Manager include ESB and the rest of the Carbon framework?
The API Manager is based on Carbon, and contains the features it needs to provide the advertised functionality. In other words, out of the box, you get API management, the API gateway, the API store and the publisher apps. If you need full ESB features beyond what the API gateway functionality provides, you can download the ESB separately.
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