Infor product announcement
Infor provided a product announcement in the beginning of May. We also want to provide the information and benefits here. Rest-API is a common industry standard and builds up a alternative to the SystemLink Technology. Rest API´s are used by software companies all over the world. The technology behind is new and has been around since the 2020s.
Product Highlights
No code API designer:
• Design APIs around real business scenarios
• Select only relevant ERP business objects
• Expose standard and object-specific actions
• Control which data properties are visible and maintainable
• Execute all requests under ERP user context and security
• Suspend, reactivate, and evolve APIs safely
• Download OpenAPI specifications
• Integrate with ION API Gateway
• Fully IDF, so Integrator objects are supported
• Fully IDF, so list requests can reference custom subsets and sort
REST microservice runtime
- A new kernel for microservices deployment
- A new gateway that uses nginx
- REST microservice that serves API requests
ERP as REST server
Responds to requests from other systems – here you can see a overview graphic.
To simplify the the security setup, we recommend using deployment profiles. To get more information you can watch our video about deployment profiles on YouTube.
Please note: The features REST API Designer and Runtime Server are general available for Infor XA release 10 and 11. So it is backwards compatible.
To take action please check the whole article in Knowledge Base (KB) article KB3672766 for all relevant information about this product.
For help just contact our MJR team!
