Use REST APIs to expose integrations as a RESTful web service that can be called by HTTP clients.
The definitions of the resources and operations that are available within a REST API are specified in a Swagger document, an open specification for defining REST APIs. For more information, see Swagger.
IBM Integration Bus also provides a set of REST nodes, which you can use to interact either synchronously or asynchronously with external REST APIs and IBM Integration Bus REST APIs. For information about using these REST nodes, see Connecting to external REST APIs.
To create an integration solution that uses a REST API, complete the following steps: