Pro RESTful APIs: Design, Build and Integrate with REST, JSON, XML and JAX-RS

© Sanjay Patni 2017

Sanjay Patni, Pro RESTful APIs, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2665-0_5

5. API Portfolio and Framework

Sanjay Patni¹ 

(1)UCSC Excention, Santa Clara, California, USA

This chapter starts with API Portfolio Architecture and then gets into framework for API development. An overview of API framework starting from client to data is discussed and then focus is shifted to review services layer with an exercise implementing services layer.

API Portfolio Architecture

Usually, an organization does not have one API but several APIs. All the APIs in the portfolio need to be consistent with each other, reusable, discoverable, and customizable.

Requirements

API portfolio design is a concern for different API stakeholders. Both API consumers and producers ...