Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect
by Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
Chapter 12: User-Defined Policies
API Connect (APIC) is designed to provide a user-friendly, drag and drop experience for creating APIs within the Assembly screen of the graphical user interface (GUI). This provides a very efficient means to create, expose, and secure your APIs without having to know all of the underlying details. In most cases, the work is done for you under the hood. APIC provides a plethora of policies that can be used within the processing of your API requests and responses, ranging from transformations to custom code (XSLT or GatewayScript), to validation policies. Although this drag and drop functionality provides a simple interface to get your APIs created quickly, there may be times when you might feel a little restricted ...
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