Utilizing Spaces

Spaces are a part of the API Connect syndication feature, which will allow you to subdivide your Catalog into partitions. Of all of the configurations we have covered within this chapter thus far, this is the first optional configuration we will demonstrate. Spaces could be useful if you have different divisions within your organization that you need to segregate within a Catalog.

For example, our sample healthcare organization might be split into two divisions within the company. One for prescription benefit management (PBM), and one for insurance. We might want to segregate these divisions within our Catalogs so that each division will be independent of the others within the Catalog. This independence would include the separation of authorized users, product life cycle, and runtime environment altogether.

Spaces would be the ideal feature to accomplish this because it provides this logical partition from all other spaces within the Catalog as well as a segregated...