API Providers (owners of the API) and API Consumers (consumers of the API) use the CentraSite Business UI to browse and search for APIs in CentraSite by name, description, attribute values, asset types and/or taxonomy groups. Additionally, the API providers can virtualize and publish APIs to the run-time layer; while the API consumers can invoke (call) the APIs that are exposed to them.

This topic describes how to:

Instructions throughout the remainder of this document use the term "API" when referring to the three base types (Service, XML Service, REST Service), and "Virtual API" when referring to its three virtual types (Virtual Service, Virtual XML Service, and Virtual REST Service) in general.