REST API assets contain API operations that conform to the constraints of REST architectural style and that allow for interaction with RESTful web services. You use REST API assets to create managed APIs that you can share with API consumers.
When you create a REST API asset, you configure the metadata of the API. You then create and define API operations, or import existing API definitions to the API.
Operations specify API consumer requests for access to a data collection. If you create an operation, you map a process to the operation. You can assign policies to the API and to the operations.
You must validate that an API doesn't contain any errors before you can publish it. You create managed APIs from published APIs.
For example, you can create a REST API asset that contains an API with a GET operation and a PUT operation. You then provide API consumers with access to the API endpoints of the operations.