Creating APIs

An API is a set of functions that provides some business or technical capability and can be called by applications by using a defined protocol. In the context of API Manager, applications are typically mobile or web applications, and they use the HTTP protocol.

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For information about creating API definitions, see the Creating API definitions by using the API Designer and Configuring API security by using the API Designer documentation.

SOAP API definitions can be created only through API Manager or the command line interface.

For information about creating SOAP API definitions through API Manager or for information about using OpenAPI (Swagger 2.0) definitions in API Manager, see the following topics: