Chapter 4: API Creation
A software platform's success is often defined by the ease with which engineers can build solutions using that platform. What can lead to an elongated Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and is a genuine gripe among experienced engineers (such as yourself, of course!) is if the software of their choice does not allow for compartmentalized development and testing.
Apart from support for a compartmentalized development platform, other factors that are extremely important for engineers are ease of tool navigation, support for logic constructs (if, switch, and so on), pre-packaged capability modules (built-in policies), the ability to create custom modules (user-defined policies), and ease of testing. API Connect (APIC) recognizes these developer demands and meets them by providing a comprehensive and feature-rich development toolset.
This toolset's main components are a desktop-based API development tool, API Designer (Designer), a container...