Oracle API Management 12c Implementation

Learn how to successfully implement API management using Oracle's API Management Solution 12c

About This Book

• Explore the key concepts, goals, and objectives of API Management and learn how to implement it using the Oracle API Management Solution
• Understand the concepts and objectives of the Application Service Governance (ASG), along with the governance framework that encompasses people, processes, and technology
• Get to grips with API Management readiness assessments, gap analysis, digital reference architecture, and implementation roadmaps

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, and SOA and API consultants who want to successfully implement API Management using the Oracle API Management Solution products.

What You Will Learn

• Understand how to manage a set of APIs
• Discover the differences and similarities between API Management and SOA Governance, and where and how these two disciplines converge into Application Services Governance (ASG)
• Grasp information about ASG and how to define an ASG governance framework
• Understand the challenges for organizations looking to expose APIs to the external world. Identify common scenarios and how to solve them
• Define an Oracle API management deployment topology
• Install and configure Oracle API Catalog (OAC), Oracle API Manager (OAPIM), and Oracle API Gateway (OAG)
• Learn about API subscriptions and API community management with the OAPIM portal
• Implement Oracle API Manager (OAPIM) including creation, publishing, management and deprecation of APIs

In Detail

Oracle SOA Governance is a comprehensive, service-orientated governance solution that is designed to make the transition to SOA easier. API management is the discipline that governs the software development lifecycle of APIs. It defines the tools and processes needed to build, publish and operate APIs including the management of the community of developers around it.

This book illustrates how to successfully implement API Management in your organization. To achieve this, the importance of defining an API management strategy and implementation roadmap so that capabilities are implemented in the right order and timeframes is described.

It starts by describing all of the fundamental concepts around API Management and related disciplines such as SOA Governance and DevOps in order to dispel the confusion surrounding these topics.

The book then takes you on the journey of implementing API Management, using a realistic case study of an organization that needs an API Management solution. You will start by identifying the key business drivers to implement APIs and then create an API Management strategy and a roadmap to realize this strategy.

You'll then go through a number of use cases, each focused on addressing specific business requirements. These will help you understand each of the Oracle API Management products, how they fit into an overall architecture, and how to implement them.

The book concludes by providing some tips and guidelines around defining a deployment topology for the Oracle API Management products and the steps to install them.

Style and approach

This book is a comprehensive guide to successfully implementing a complete API Management solution from inception to implementation. The initial chapters introduce you to Oracle SOA Governance and API Management and from there, chapters are mainly hands-on and provide a full step-by-step walkthrough of how to implement the products of the Oracle API management solution to address realistic use cases.

Luis Augusto Weir

Luis Augusto Weir is an Oracle Ace director and a principal architect for HCL technologies. In addition, he currently leads the global OFM and Oracle PaaS solutions offerings in the Modern Apps and Integration Practice (MAPI) at HCL. With several years of experience implementing IT solutions across the globe, he has successfully delivered several large and complex Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and API solutions for Fortune 500 companies. He has led SOA and other middleware capabilities for different renowned SIs, such as CSC, Cognizant, and Capgemini. He is currently focusing on creating digital solutions and strategies to key global HCL customers and helps them adopt and realize the full benefits that technologies, such as APIs, mobile frameworks, cloud integration platforms, and IoT, can bring to the business. Having had a natural talent for software, computers, and engineering in general, Luis' career in software started from an early age. Even before starting university, Luis's entrepreneurial spirit led him to start several ventures, including the very first social media website in his country of origin (Venezuela) as well as a small software development firm. Although none of these ventures turned into a multimillion corporation, the experience and knowledge gained during this period led him to develop the passion for distributed software computing, which inevitably led to SOA. Luis is very passionate about technology. He is a published author, a blogger, and also a regular speaker in major conferences and events. Being a well-known industry expert, especially when it comes to Oracle middleware technologies, he is an Oracle Technology Network (OTN)-certified SOA black belt.