Likelihood to Recommend APIM is useful for the standard scenarios:
1) Securing your back-end APIs - If you have a legacy back-end web service that has a basic authentication scheme, you can add some additional security by placing APIM in front, and requiring subscription keys. Leverage your existing firewall to ensure only your APIM instance can communicate with your back-end API, and you've basically added a layer of protection.
2) Lift and shift - there are always going to be clients that don't want to update their clients to use a newer API; in some cases you can make a newer API look like an older one by implementing some complex policies in APIM. You can also do the opposite, making older APIs look new, such as making an XML back-end accept both JSON and XML.
3) Centralizing your APIs - if you've acquired another company and want to make their API set look as if it's a part of the larger whole, APIM is an easy way to provide a consistent front-end interface for developers.
Read full review JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is great when you are looking at building more or less pure Java applications and SOA micro-services that may integrate with multiple external data sources. It is less useful when you are looking to build simple SOA applications that are simple in nature since the overhead associated with deploying as well as learning BPEL.
Read full review Pros Easy commissioning of APIs. Great policies to control access. Easy mock services for testing. Read full review JBoss is open source so the cost overhead to deploy and build application is very low. JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform and its parent Redhat are reputed and well adapted in the industry so it is easy to find best practices documentation for complex deployments of JBoss middleware. Read full review Cons Lack of robustness is a bit of an issue. Several other providers offer more options and capabilities, but then, they are lacking in interface ease. As with anything Azure, pricing is really hard to stay on top of. I always find that you really don’t know what you’re paying for until you get the bill. Having an excellent Azure Administrator can help resolve that. Integrating with app services outside of Azure can be a challenge, or at least much more challenging than just using Azure App Services. Read full review JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform is dependent and build for JEE/Java application so using a different programming paradigm will be much harder. There is still a learning curve to get familiar with BPEL making it harder to get an SOA micro-service up and running compared to a fully cloud-based service Read full review Support Rating Redhat support generally is great and that is true for the JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform as well. Even if you do not buy support from Redhat, you can reply on the discussion board and bug fixes via the open-source JBoss without much trouble.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Azure APIM vs
Amazon API Gateway :
1) Azure APIM was a complete package that included a developer portal.
2) We are very Microsoft centric - so the Microsoft product suite aligned very well with our business needs.
3) It was faster and easier to stand up Azure APIM for testing than it was for the
Amazon API Gateway .
Read full review Oracle SOA Suite (Oracle BPM +
Oracle BPEL + other components) and IBM WebSphere middleware is most costly and suited if you are already using applications and other middleware components from these vendors. Mulesoft (Salesforce
Mule ESB ) is best when you need deep integration with one of Salesforce's existing products. JBoss and
Apache Web Server are best when you do not want to invest infant CapEx/OpEx on license fee.
Apache Web Server based middleware is best for simple SOA applications.
Read full review Return on Investment We can always think of positive ROI impact on business It helps to easily facilitate the design, deployment, and maintenance of our APIs Read full review Positive impact on the business by being able to use existing Java/JEE expertise to build and deploy applications and business services. Positive ROI due to no license cost for JBoss Enterprise SOA. Read full review ScreenShots