Overview
Developer Portal offers you an exclusive platform to safely expose your APIs to your target developers and partners.
Developer Portal also allows developers to self-register, learn about these APIs, and use the APIs in their applications.
To prepare to manage the APIs that you plan to make available in Developer Portal, consider the following questions:
How many
Developer Portal instances you might need?
Which organizations might use
Developer Portal?
Which users in the organization might use
Developer Portal to consume the published APIs?
Which taxonomies and categories are required to organize the APIs?
For each Developer Portal instance, there is a Developer Portal object registered with the API Provider. A Developer Portal is associated with an organization. Multiple Developer Portal instances can share the same organization.
An API can be published to multiple Developer Portal instances. Developer Portal is capable of managing APIs published from API Gateway or any other provider application.
When an API is unpublished (removed) from Developer Portal, its metadata is deleted from Developer Portal, and the API is no longer available for access.
In addition to APIs published from a provider, you can also create APIs in Developer Portal by providing a corresponding specification. The APIs created in Developer Portal need not be associated with any providers.
You can download the published APIs from Developer Portal to have a copy of the API specification.