Understanding the Components of API Management

In this lesson, we will cover the following topics:

Components of SAP API Management

SAP API Management consists of various components. The following is the SAP API Management component diagram. We will also discuss this diagram later in the exercises.

Diagram illustrating SAP API Business Hub integration involving API management, deployment, authentication, debugging, monitoring, credential store, consumer access, and enterprise application, marked by numbered steps.

Here is the list of important SAP API Management components (numbered 1–9 in the above diagram).

No. 1: API Provider - Summarizes many different sources
No. 2: API - The new API with URL (No. 4)
No. 3: API Designer - An openAPI definition
No. 4: The new API URL - Acts as a proxy
No. 5: Policies - Edit the request and response message
No. 6: Product - Implementation of a UI reference of an API Proxy
No. 7: Application based on a product
No. 8: Additional services such as monitoring, testing, and more
No. 9: Entry in Developer Hub

We will take a closer look at the individual components in the following lessons.

Resources

To learn more, you can refer to the following resources on SAP Help Portal.

Summary

SAP API Management consists of various components that provide different capabilities. The most important ones are API Provider, API Proxy, Product, and Developer Hub.