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Oracle MCS: Storing values in Application Policies

Oracle MCS offers different levels of lifecycle management and in this post I am going to focus on the lifecycle management (versioning) of the different artifacts such as Mobile Backends, Custom APIs and their implementations, etc. These artifacts can have two different states: draft and published. When you publish an API it is frozen becasuse it is not safe to modify it, if you modify it you can cause problems in the different components that are using it.

This is why versioning is one of the key points that you have to keep in mind when developing APIs.

In this example we are going to suppose that we have a mobile app that consumes Twitter API from Oracle MCS. As you might know, in order to consume twitter API you need tokens that you can get when you create your application in Twitter Platform.

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MCS: Express API, the new feature added in 16.4.1

When we want to create a new Custom API, we have to define the each of the endpoints and, if we want to consume them from Oracle MAX, we have to define the schemas and then add some mock data. Since version 16.4.1 (v3.0), there is a new feature, Express API, where we can create the resources and the schemas easily and declaratively.

I have to say that we can still create the APIs in the old way. But if we want to use Express API, we just have to select that option when creating an API.

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