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Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service

You're reading from Implementing Oracle API Platform Cloud Service Design, deploy, and manage your APIs in Oracle's new API Platform

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788478656

Length 518 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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OAuth

Concepts

Design

Authors (4):

Andrew Bell

Rensen

Luis Weir

Philip Wilkins

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

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Foreword

Contributors

Acknowledgments by All Authors

Preface

1. Platform Overview FREE CHAPTER

2. Use Case

3. Designing the API

4. Building and Running the Microservice

5. Platform Setup and Gateway Configuration

6. Defining Policies for APIs

7. Testing APIs with API Fortress

8. Implementing OAuth 2.0

9. Implementing Custom Policies

10. Moving from API Management 12c to APIP CS

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Index

The concept of logical and physical gateways

The API platform supports the idea of logical gateways and physical gateways. This concept is important as it has implications on the operational costs. Unlike a number of other products which charge based on the number of CPUs being used, the API platform is priced based on the number of logical gateways and API call volume in blocks.

As the following diagram shows, it is possible to have as many physical gateways deployed as desired within a logical gateway, where a physical gateway represents a single physical deployment of the gateway component. Not only that, the gateways can span as many hosting locations as desired:

Deployment relationship between logical and physical gateways

The logical gateway, as its name suggests, is an abstract idea (as in there is no software deployed specifically for a logical gateway), which allows us to group collection(s) of APIs that we would want to manage in a similar way. For example, we might wish to manage...

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Authors (4)

Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell works at Capgemini, where he is a Senior Applications Consultant for the Oracle Practice. He has more than 30 years' experience in the IT industry covering a wide range of software products and industry verticals.

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Rensen

Rensen

Sander Rensen has been involved his whole career in the integration space, with over 12 years of experience in the IT Industry. Sander started his career as a developer migrating large sets of data, but his organizational and leadership skills were soon noticed, which he applied successfully across a variety of data migration projects.

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Luis Weir

Luis Weir

Luis Augusto Weir is a Director of Software Development at Oracle and a former Chief Architect at Capgemini, Oracle Ace Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. An API management and microservices evangelist, Luis has over 17 years of experience implementing complex distributed systems around the world.Co-author of 3 other books as well as numerous articles and white papers, Luis has been a frequent speaker frequent speaker at known events such as CodeOne, Devoxx, Gartner AAD&I, Oracle OpenWorld, Java2Days and many user groups and meetups.Luis holds an MS in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nueva Esparta.

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Philip Wilkins

Philip Wilkins

Phil Wilkins has spent over 25 years in the software industry with a breadth of experience in different businesses and environments from multinationals to software start-ups and customer organizations including a global optical and auditory healthcare provider.

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