The previous incarnation of Oracle's API management suite, 12c, was made up of three products:
- Oracle API Catalog 12c (OAC)
- Oracle API Manager 12c (OAPIM 12c)
- Oracle API Gateway 11g (OAG 11g)
OAC helps organizations to catalogue existing enterprise and third-party services and APIs, thereby unlocking functionality and information, which would have been previously hidden. API catalog allows application and/or mobile developers and architects to discover and reuse assets rather than inadvertently re-creating them from scratch each time, thereby greatly reducing redundancy and maintenance overhead issues.
OAPIM 12c is installed on top of Oracle service bus and allows curators to take existing OSB proxies and use them to create APIs. These can either be managed APIs, where an API key must be used to access the API or non-managed, in which case...