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Introduction SOA is an architecture approach for defining, linking, and integrating reusable business services that have clear boundaries and are self-contained with their own functionalities. Within this type of architecture, you can orchestrate the business services in business processes. Adopting the concept of services—a higher-level abstraction that's independent of application or infrastructure IT platform and of context or other services. Overview A basic SOA architecture is composed of a service provider, service, and an optional service directory. Application-to-application messaging is used in the information exchange. v   First the service provider creates a service and decides to expose it and publish it. v   Publishing is done by posting the service information on the service directory. v   On the other side, a service requester, in need of a certain service, searches the service directory for one that meets the necessary criteria. v   Upon

Introduction In this article, you will learn how to create new API using IBM API Connect. Using the graphical design tools and source editor, you will create a new API called Hello World API which will return the greeting message based on requested name. In my previous article you can lean how to setup IBM API Connect instance/environment in IBM Could. Overview Create the API and API Definition Step 1: Click on the + Add button and New API . Step 2: Enter the appropriate information to create a REST API definition. Title:  Hello World API Name:  helloworld-api Base Path:  /helloworld Version:  1.0.0   You do not add a product at this time, click Create API . If the API Editor help screen appears, click the sentence Learn more about composing APIs, or click Got it! to access the main screen immediately. Step 3: In the side bar, select  Paths  to display the  Paths  panel. Create a new path by clicking the Add    Path icon