In this presentation by Jerome Louvel, Restlet's Founder and Chief Geek, discover the Restlet Studio and get a glimpse of the Restlet platform's capabilities. Learn about API project styles and collaborative API-first design.

1. Getting Started with RAML using
Restlet ’s Visual Designer
Jerome Louvel, Chief Geek
@jlouvel

2. About me
● Launched Restlet Framework, first REST framework in 2005
● Contributor to “RESTful Web Services” (O’Reilly, 2007)
● Member of the JAX-RS 1.0 expert group (2007 - 2009)
● Co-author of “Restlet in Action” (Manning, 2012)
● InfoQ editor covering Web APIs since 2014
● Founder & CTO of Restlet, API platform vendor

3. Restlet Studio
For visual RAML design

4. API project styles
API
Project
Code-driven
Data-driven
Contract-driven
Behavior-driven
Service-driven

5. Collaborative API-first design
Back-end team
Front-end teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API

6. ● Browser-based IDE
○ available in Chrome Store
○ any modern browser
● Code generation
○ client SDKs
○ server skeletons
● Visual design of APIs
○ APIs with large # of resources (sections)
○ adherence to REST
○ easy conversion from/to Swagger
● Collaborative design
○ API projects saved in cloud
○ shared with team members
http://studio.restlet.com
Main features

7. Part of Restlet Platform

8. Thank you
Q&A