To accelerate innovation, help developers streamline their efforts, and increase productivity, WS02 has introduced new capabilities for WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK), and WSO2 Micro Integrator.
Software developers today need to be nimble and deliver innovative new digital experiences faster. However, these experiences are often based on a complex web of data, processes, services and APIs that must be woven together.
“In the push for faster innovation, software development teams have embraced composable applications and microservices, but they also need greater ease and efficiency from their supporting API management and integration technologies,” said Christopher Davey, WSO2 vice president and general manager – API & integration software business unit.
He added with their new AI-based assistants, a unified control plane for WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK, and a WSO2 Micro Integrator for VS Code extension, they are enhancing these developers’ experiences by offering a more user-friendly, productive, and future-proof environment that aligns with their evolving needs.
WSO2 delivers two open-source software offerings to address organisations’ diverse API management requirements worldwide. WSO2 API Manager is its comprehensive, industry-leading platform for full lifecycle API management, which executes more than 60 trillion transactions each year worldwide.
The WSO2 APK, launched in September 2023, has been engineered from the ground up to leverage Kubernetes’ inherent strengths while optimising API management practices and workflows. The latest product releases enable software development teams to leverage the strengths of WSO2 API Manager’s robust API management control plane features and WSO2 APK’s efficient, cloud-optimized data plane within a Kubernetes environment.
WSO2’s new capabilities give developers a single unified control plane that manages both the WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK data planes. These capabilities bring powerful API management to the Kubernetes environments.
The new artificial intelligence (AI) based WSO2 AI Developer Assistant in the WSO2 API Manager control plane enhances search in the Developer Portal and adds natural language API testing.
Through the control plane, WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK users also access the beta release of a new intelligent assistant that uses natural language-driven chat to enhance developer productivity.
This includes – AI-based search for the developer portal and AI-based API testing, which can improve API testing speed, efficiency, and accuracy by using automatically generated test samples, suggestions on efficient testing paths, and pointers to the most relevant API resources for testing a specific scenario.
It also provides GraphQL support, delivering precise data access capabilities to APK APIs to enable more efficient data retrieval. The new WSO2 Micro Integrator extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) offers an intuitive graphical interface with an AI MI Copilot to simplify developing integrations with natural language prompts. The results are simplified development, improved code maintainability, higher efficiency, and greater flexibility.
The new WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK versions, generally available today, can be configured to enable both products’ data planes to be managed by the WSO2 API Manager control plane.
APIs running in WSO2 APK gateways can benefit from the established management capabilities in WSO2 API Manager’s user interface (UI) and Developer Portal/Marketplace. As a result:
- Software developers get a streamlined development process with a container-native platform and strong API management.
- API architects can design comprehensive API strategies using a unified platform.
- API business owners can efficiently deploy large numbers of APIs in a scalable and cost-effective way.
To provide a modern, intuitive and efficient development environment for WSO2 Micro Integrator, WSO2 is introducing the WSO2 Micro Integrator for VS Code extension, which will be available as a developer preview on May 7, 2024, the first day of WSO2Con.
Designed to enhance the workflow and experience of working on integration projects, it lets developers take advantage of the popular, user-friendly VS Code Editor and integrates seamlessly with cloud platforms for interaction with cloud services and APIs.
The extension also features MI Copilot for AI-assisted development. MI Copilot allows developers to describe their integration problem in natural language and have MI Copilot automatically generate the required configurations. This significantly reduces set-up time, streamlines development, and empowers developers to become productive faster.
