Lets get started with WSO2 API Cloud

Few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on "Getting started with WSO2 App Cloud". Intention of writing it was to line up some of the screencasts we have done and published which helps you to use the WSO2 App Cloud.

Couple of weeks after we started publishing App Cloud videos, we started publishing API Cloud videos too. Intention of this blog post is to introduce those screencasts we have added.

WSO2 API Cloud provides you the API Management service in the cloud. You can create and publish APIs very easily using it and it is powered by the well established product of WSO2 product stack, WSO2 API Manager. If you already have an account in WSO2 Cloud or wso2.com, you can login to WSO2 Cloud and navigate to the API Cloud.

First thing you would do, when you go to the API Cloud is, creating and publishing an API. Following screencast will help you on how to do it.

After publishing your API, it appears in your API store. If you advertise your API store to others they can subscribe to the APIs and invoke them. Next screencast shows how to that.

You may have a very promising API created and published, now available in your API store. But, for it to be successful, you need to spread the word. To do that, WSO2 API Cloud have some useful social and feedback channels. You can allow the users to rate your API, comment on them, share using social media and also start interactive discussions via the forums. Following tutorial showcases those capabilities.

For a developer to use your API easily, its documentation is important. Therefore, WSO2 API Cloud allows you to add documentation for your API. There are several options such as inline documentations, uploading already available docs and pointing to online available docs. This video showcases the documentation features.

We will keep adding more screencasts/tutorials to our API Cloud playlist. Stay tuned and enjoy experiencing the power of WSO2 API Cloud.

Lets get started with WSO2 App Cloud

We at WSO2 Cloud team are working on improving the experience we are providing to the WSO2 Cloud users. During this effort, we try to provide clear instructions on using the various features available. Since we have two cloud services offered to the users, I'll be talking about the WSO2 App Cloud in this blog post.

As the first step, we published a set of tutorials with step-by-step instructions on how to do things in the WSO2 App Cloud. This included

• Creating an application from scratch
• Uploading an existing application
• Editing your app with the Cloud IDE
• Creating and using databases
• Invoking APIs from your app code etc.

You can find those tutorials at https://docs.wso2.com/display/AppCloud/Tutorials.

As the next step, we started working on a series of screencasts which shows you how to use different features in the WSO2 App Cloud. These screencasts go parallel with the above mentioned tutorials. We have published them in YouTube and also linked from the tutorials too.  So, you can use both of them to make your life easier. At the moment we have released four screencasts and we are in the process of releasing more. I'll list them here for your reference.

• Create and deploy your first Java application to WSO2 App Cloud

• Edit your app using the Cloud IDE

• Edit your app using your favourite IDE

• Upload your WAR file to WSO2 App Cloud

When you start using WSO2 App Cloud, go through the tutorials and these screencasts. If you face any problems, feel free to contact the WSO2 Cloud team via cloud@wso2.com. We would like to hear your feedback and improve the experience we provide.