Carsten Bönnen works for SAP SE within the strategic product management for SAP Cloud Platform. He received his MA in computer linguistics and artificial intelligence in Germany in 2001 and started working at SAP that same year. Initially a Java developer and trainer, he soon became a consultant and led strategic projects in the then-new field of enterprise portals. Since 2002, he has worked as a product manager for SAP NetWeaver Portal, SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, SAP Gateway, and SAP API Management. For another four years, he has worked as director for technology strategy for the Strategic Alliance Management at Microsoft.

Learn to monetize, monitor, analyze, and consume APIs

... Foreword ... 15

... Preface ... 17

... Acknowledgments ... 19

PART I ... Getting Started ... 21

1 ... Introduction ... 23

1.1 ... Trends in Digital Business ... 24

1.2 ... APIs as Digital Building Blocks ... 28

1.3 ... Why Manage APIs? ... 33

1.4 ... SAP API Management: A Full-Lifecycle API Management Platform ... 39

1.5 ... Related and Complementary Products ... 42

1.6 ... Summary ... 43

2 ... SAP API Management at a Glance ... 45

2.1 ... Architecture ... 45

2.2 ... Introduction to the Real-World Scenario ... 48

2.3 ... Deploying and Running Your First API Proxy ... 52

2.4 ... Summary ... 62

3 ... Managing the End-to-End Lifecycle of APIs ... 63

3.1 ... Overview of the API Lifecycle ... 63

3.2 ... Components of SAP API Management ... 67

3.3 ... Lifecycle of APIs ... 103

3.4 ... Summary ... 119

PART II ... Designing, Developing, and Managing Enterprise APIs ... 121

4 ... Developing APIs ... 123

4.1 ... API Development Methodology ... 123

4.2 ... Access the API Designer ... 125

4.3 ... API Providers ... 126

4.4 ... Develop New APIs ... 135

4.5 ... Add Resilience to Your APIs ... 150

4.6 ... Summary ... 152

5 ... Managing Enterprise APIs ... 153

5.1 ... Policy Editor Basics ... 153

5.2 ... Using Policies ... 156

5.3 ... Traffic Management ... 158

5.4 ... Mediation ... 160

5.5 ... Security ... 162

5.6 ... Extension ... 164

5.7 ... Summary ... 166

6 ... Traffic Management ... 167

6.1 ... Access Control ... 168

6.2 ... Concurrent Rate Limit ... 170

6.3 ... Quotas ... 177

6.4 ... Response Cache ... 181

6.5 ... Spike Arrest ... 184

6.6 ... Summary ... 186

7 ... Mediation ... 187

7.1 ... Assign Message ... 188

7.2 ... Extract Variables ... 195

7.3 ... JSON to XML ... 200

7.4 ... XML to JSON ... 205

7.5 ... Key Value Map Operations ... 208

7.6 ... Raise Fault ... 212

7.7 ... Service Callout ... 214

7.8 ... Summary ... 217

8 ... Security ... 219

8.1 ... Authentication ... 220

8.2 ... API Security Threats ... 241

8.3 ... Summary ... 248

9 ... Monetizing APIs with API Products ... 251

9.1 ... Create API Products and Rate Plans ... 252

9.2 ... View Bills ... 263

9.3 ... Summary ... 265

PART III ... Consuming APIs and API Analytics ... 267

10 ... Consuming APIs ... 269

10.1 ... Building SAP Fiori Applications with SAP Web IDE ... 270

10.2 ... Building Native Applications with SAP Cloud Platform Mobile Services ... 290

10.3 ... Generating Integration Flows from APIs in SAP Cloud Platform Integration ... 305

10.4 ... Summary ... 309

11 ... API Analytics ... 311

11.1 ... Analyzing API Consumption ... 312

11.2 ... Developing Custom Charts ... 315

11.3 ... Statistics Collector Policy ... 317

11.4 ... Analytics on Cloud Foundry ... 320

11.5 ... Summary ... 323

PART IV ... Next Steps ... 325

12 ... API Program ... 327

12.1 ... Why an API Program? ... 328

12.2 ... Best Practices for Setting Up an API Program ... 330

12.3 ... API Products and the API Product Manager ... 333

12.4 ... SAP's API Program: A Case Study ... 336

12.5 ... SAP API Business Hub ... 339

12.6 ... Summary ... 344

13 ... Recent and Future Developments ... 345

13.1 ... Recent Innovations ... 345

13.2 ... Future Roadmap ... 351

13.3 ... Summary ... 354

... The Authors ... 355

... Index ... 357