API-Key Based Authentication: Quickly and Easily by Anuj Kaushal

July 5, 2019 2 minute read

API-Key based authentication is a simple way for providing secure access to APIs. This involves the following steps:

Pre-requisite: User logs in to the service portal and finds or generates an API-Key.
The API-Key is shared with the client application.
The client application makes a request for a resource using the API key.

Steps required in API Key based authentication.

* An API-key is simply a token that a client provides when making API calls.

How to invoke a REST API protected with an API-Key using Oracle Integration Cloud?

Oracle REST Adapter provides a comprehensive way for consuming external RESTful APIs. It provides a re-usable connection that can be used to specify the security policy for accessing protected APIs. Read the complete article here.

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Director Product Management

Jürgen Kress is a member of the product management team responsible for Oracle’s integration and digital assistant partner business. He is the founder of the Oracle Integration and Developer Partner Communities, and the global Oracle Partner Advisory Councils. The PaaS & Middleware Partner Community is home to over 6,000 members internationally as Oracle’s most active and successful community, which Jürgen manages with monthly newsletters, webcasts, and conferences. He also hosts the annual PaaS & Middleware Partner Community Forums and PaaS & Middleware Summer Camps, where hundreds of partners receive product updates, roadmap insights, and hands-on training supplemented by a variety of Web 2.0 tools like Twitter, discussion forums, online communities, blogs, and wikis.

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