A simpler experience for creating and modernizing APIs
When creating new APIs or modernizing existing ones, you want to make them attractive to application developers, which means they have to be easy to use, easily scalable and easy for you to maintain and upgrade. That’s why IBM API Connect® includes the developer toolkit and API manager’s native creation tooling.
Installed locally for offline development, the developer toolkit provides a command-line interface (CLI) as well as a graphical user interface, called API Designer, to quickly create and configure APIs and LoopBack® applications. It gives your API developers automated, model-driven tools to create new APIs and microservices based on Node.js and Java™ runtimes — all managed from a single unified console.
Everything you need to build APIs
Drag-and-drop policies
Save developers’ time and reduce errors with drag-and-drop assembly for many complex API policies, with no XML required.
Definition templates
Enforce corporate standards by using pre-existing templates for both API definitions and API product definitions.
Integrated security
Effortlessly secure APIs, including those created with IBM App Connect, to accelerate API delivery.
Simplified categorization
Use customer-defined metadata to simplify API categorization and searchability and control API gateway behavior.
Seamless experience
Move from developing APIs in the developer toolkit to publishing and managing them in API Connect without interruption.
Simple governance
Allow your lines of business to publish internal and external APIs to a single corporate portal.
Creating APIs in the healthcare industry
Imagine a world where every patient could securely call up any part of their medical history at the tap of an app. To get there, healthcare companies, which have an interest in making sure patients receive the right care at the right time, need to build APIs that are both fueled by their systems of record and made to be as simple as possible to attract developers. API Connect gives API developers all the tools they need to create security-rich, easy-to-use APIs for an array of healthcare applications — from wellness trackers to vaccine records.
Testimonials
“ Choosing the right IBM technologies has helped us turn Carbip from a bright idea into a viable product in less than 12 months. ”
- Eric Barault
- Co-founder and Technical Director
- Carbip
Harness powerful tools to create APIs
Create an API with definitions in a comfortable graphical user interface (GUI) that clearly walks you through the optional and required inputs for your API.
Proxy and invoke the existing web services that you want to secure, manage and share with others by decoupling the frontend API from its backend services.
Configure simple GUI security or use powerful drag-and-drop policies to reinforce gateways when creating an API; securely share endpoint access with users.
For advanced needs, use built-in drag-and-drop policies proven in financial enterprises and defense departments — or customize your own with GatewayScript.