Create your first REST API
You can view, create, and manage REST APIs, and publish the APIs to a configured destination for consumption in the webMethods API Gateway UI. The following section describes how you can create your first REST API in webMethods API Gateway.
Representational State Transfer (REST) protocol defines a set of architectural principles that allow accessing and manipulating resources by using capabilities that are already built into HTTP with the use of HTTP methods. The following are the key points of the REST protocol.
- Serves the data directly on HTTP
- Easy and fast to access the data
In webMethods API Gateway, you can create REST APIs by importing it in two ways:
- Using file
- Using URL