Author: Pradeep Kumar Dhoopati

Enterprises must leverage technology's potential to streamline their processes, enhance customer interactions, and foster innovation to remain competitive. It's an established truth that an organization's triumph is contingent on its capacity to smoothly amalgamate systems, applications, and data. Among the most revolutionary approaches in this context is API-driven integration, acting as the linchpin of contemporary business functions. As an integration evangelist with extensive and diverse experience, I hold a steadfast belief that API-driven integration is not merely a passing trend; it's a transformative force poised to reshape how businesses function, excel, and evolve.

The widely discussed approach of API-led integration represents a purposeful and strategic method for unifying and aligning diverse systems, applications, and data sources within an organization. It essentially revolves around the seamless connection of various software components, utilizing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as foundational building blocks. These APIs facilitate effective and standardized data exchange and communication among different applications, acting as intermediaries.

Gartner forecasts that the low-code/no-code platforms market to grow in 2024 and revolutionize the world of enterprise architecture. This burgeoning technology is set to skyrocket in adoption, propelling businesses into a new era of efficiency and agility. It is a realm where traditional coding took a backseat, replaced by intuitive platforms that could transform concepts into reality with astonishing speed.

On one side of the horizon lay a landscape of capabilities, from seamless workflow automation to self-serving data integration. While not every capability might be relevant to every endeavor, the potential for transformative impact was undeniable. This exploration led to a bustling marketplace where a myriad of vendors compete to provide the finest tools. It is a testament to the growing influence of no-code and low-code solutions, an ecosystem teeming with innovation and possibilities. In this ever-evolving era, architects, especially enterprise architects, hold the key to unlocking the full potential of this paradigm shift. One must recognize the need for architects to adapt, embrace this wave of change, and integrate it seamlessly into their architectural landscapes. These insights are the cornerstone of the mission to empower architects to discern their value and harmonize it with the aspirations of the business and IT realms. The transformative power of no-code and low-code technologies proves that with the right tools and a collective spirit, architects could shape a future of boundless possibilities.

What is Serverless? Before we begin, let's look at a very brief history of the WWW (World Wide Web). We're going to talk a lot about the web here because that's our world, and that's where we do a lot of our work today. 

Let's start with HTTP. At the beginning of every web address, there's this HyperText Transfer Protocol. It's the way our browsers, our computers, talk to servers to request information that they then respond to.

TIBCO Active Matrix Business Works is a middleware product which serves as an integrated foundation for mission-critical IT environments. Powered by a next-generation foundation that includes an Eclipse-based design-time, a powerful process engine and a modular OSGi-based run-time, Business Works 6 enables developers to create new services, orchestrate business processes and integrate applications in the shortest time possible.

In this tutorial, we will see how to create a RESTful Web Service using TIBCO Business Works 6 (BW6) or Container Edition (BWCE). TIBCO Business Works Container Edition allows customers to leverage the power and functionality of TIBCO Active Matrix Business Works in order to build cloud-native applications with an API-first approach and deploy it to container-based PaaS platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and OpenShift or to similar Docker-supported cloud platforms.