Up and Running with WSO2 API Manager

WSO2 API Manager is a free and open source API managing tool that facilitate creating, publishing, life cycle management and monetization of APIs in a secure and affordable manner. Installing and running the product is obvious. But prior to installing the product API Manager, there are few application that recommended to be install in order to run the API manager. Let's looking to them one by one:

Oracle javaSE Development Kit(jdk)

jdk is nessassary since program is launch, build and run on top of java. follow the following steps to download and install jdk in to your machine.

visit http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp and choose the right tar.gz and download

For the installation you need sudo privileges, for that type sudo su and enter.

Create a directory for jdk installation.

mkdir /opt/jdk

Extract the tar.gz file into created directory.

tar -zxf jdk-8u5-linux-x64.tar.gz -C /opt/jdk

To install java and javac type the following commands and enter.

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/java

update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/javac javac /opt/jdk/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/javac

Next we have to set the JAVA_HOME variable. Following tutorial will explain the steps to set the JAVA_HOME and PATH variables permanently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlT0T9NjKZ4

Apache maven

Apache maven is required to build the product from the source code.

visit http://maven.apache.org and select tar.gz of a version 3.0.0 or above and download.

create a directory for maven installation.

mkdir /opt/maven

Extract the tar.gz file into created directory.

tar -zvxf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/maven

open the bashrc file and add the bin directory of the created directory apache-maven-3.3.9 to the PATH environment variable

To confirm the maven installation open up a new terminal and type mvn -v and enter. If installed correctly result look similar to following.

 

Apache Ant

Apache ant is required to compile and run the product

visit http://ant.apache.org and select tar.gz of a version 1.7.0 or above and download.

create a directory for ant installation.

mkdir /opt/ant

Extract the tar.gz file into created directory.

tar -zvxf apache-ant-1.9.7-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/ant

open the .bashrc file and add the bin directory of the created directory apache-ant-1.9.7 to the PATH environment variable as did in installing apache maven.

To confirm the maven installation open up a new terminal and type ant-version and enter. Result will look as follows if installed correctly.

Installing and running WSO2 API Manager.

After fulfilling above prerequisites it is possible to install and run the product. Visit the site http://wso2.com/api-management/ and download the latest version of WSO2 API Manager.

Extract the archive in to a seperate directory

product can be run by executing one of the given commands

• Windows: <APIM_HOME>/bin/wso2server.bat --run
• Linux: sh <APIM_HOME>/bin/wso2server.sh