Publishing a LoopBack application through the API Designer
Publish a LoopBack® application to an API Connect collective to make the application available for use by your API definitions. You can also publish a Product to a Catalog at the same time. The syndication feature in IBM® API Connect means that you can also publish a Product to a Space in a Catalog.
Before you begin
- Created a LoopBack application.
- Set up an API Connect collective and added it in the Cloud Manager. For more information, see Installing API Connect Collective.
- Created an App in API Manager. For more information, see Creating an App.
- Permission to publish applications to your API Connect collective.
Important:
- IBM API Connect collectives are deprecated in IBM API Connect Version 5.0.7 in favor of container runtimes. For more information and background, see Open, scalable, flexible runtime management of APIs through API Connect enabled containers. For information on setting up and migrating to containers, see Installing a containerized runtime environment.
- Existing customers can continue to use their collectives with IBM API Connect Version 5.0.7, and if wanted can expand their collective deployments to new servers. API Connect collectives are supported for existing customers until the end of support of IBM API Connect Version 5.0 (see Software lifecycle page for IBM API Connect Version 5.0). Until then, users of API Connect collectives are encouraged to migrate to container runtimes to take advantage of their agility and scalability.
- New customers should not install API Connect collectives because this feature is no longer supported for new users.
Note:
- LoopBack projects contain both APIs and applications. To enable LoopBack projects to run, you must publish both the APIs (by publishing the Products that contain the APIs) and the associated applications.
- All references in this topic to a Catalog can also be applied to a Space in a Catalog, unless specified otherwise. For more information about Spaces, see Using syndication in IBM API Connect®.