Create or update a definition for one or more deployed REST APIs to IBM® API Connect.
You can use IBM API Connect to manage and publish APIs. It enables you to promote and monitor the usage of the REST APIs, and to secure and authenticate access requests from external users and applications to your IBM Integration Bus application. It also provides monitoring and fine-grained control over access and workload management, such as the ability to control the number of requests per second for a given client application.
For information about supported
versions of IBM API Connect, see
the IBM Integration Bus system requirements web page.
IBM API Connect works in conjunction with an IBM DataPower® Gateway appliance; IBM API Connect pushes configuration to the IBM DataPower Gateway, which in turn proxies the requests back to the IBM Integration Bus integration server that hosts the deployed REST API, as shown in the following diagram:
When you push a REST API to IBM API Connect, you either create a new REST API definition or, if the REST API definition already exists on the IBM API Connect system, you replace the latest version of the REST API definition with the new definition of your REST API. The title of the REST API is used to identify the REST API definition on the IBM API Connect system.
Alternatively, can push a single REST API to IBM API Connect by using the IBM Integration Toolkit, as described in Pushing a REST API to IBM API Management or IBM API Connect by using the IBM Integration Toolkit.