When API Providers define or model APIs with CentraSite Business UI, they can optionally publish the resulting API to API-Portal. However, to start publishing an API from CentraSite to the API-Portal, you must first register and integrate the API-Portal with an instance of CentraSite with which you want to work.

CentraSite also uses predefined design-time/change-time and run-time policies to govern the APIs that CentraSite publishes to API-Portal.

To use CentraSite with API-Portal, you must first register API-Portal with CentraSite and vice versa as described in the following sections.