Event Endpoint Management continues to be enhanced

Event Endpoint Management continues to be available and enhanced as part of IBM's integration platforms.

End of Marketing announcement for IBM Event Automation

Event Streams and Event Processing are deprecated and no enhancements will be provided. Support and security fixes will be provided in line with published support lifecycle policies. Future event-driven solutions that make use of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink will be delivered by IBM Confluent.

For more information, see the support lifecycle transition and software ordering completion announcement.

Integrating with IBM API Connect Developer Portal

You can integrate Event Endpoint Management with IBM API Connect Developer Portal to provide a unified developer experience to discover and consume both APIs and event streams. This integration enables you to publish virtual topics from Event Endpoint Management directly to Developer Portal, where users can discover them alongside REST APIs and other services.

For a comparison of the concepts in Event Endpoint Management and Developer Portal, see Integration concepts and glossary.

Benefits of integration

Integrating Event Endpoint Management with Developer Portal provides the following benefits:

  • Unified developer experience: Users can discover both synchronous APIs and asynchronous event streams in a single portal, simplifying the process of building applications that use multiple integration patterns.
  • Broader socialization: Publish your event streams to a wider audience through your organization’s established developer portal.
  • Consistent governance: Apply consistent access controls and governance policies across all your APIs and event streams.
  • Enhanced discoverability: Leverage Developer Portal’s search and categorization capabilities to help users find the right event streams for their needs.
  • Self-service access: Enable users to subscribe to event streams through the familiar Developer Portal interface.

Integration architecture

The integration between Event Endpoint Management and Developer Portal consists of the following components:

  • Event Manager: Where virtual topics are created, configured, and published to Developer Portal.
  • Developer Portal: Where published virtual topics are displayed alongside other APIs and services for developer consumption.
  • Event Gateway: Provides runtime access to virtual topics for applications that subscribe through Developer Portal.

Publishing virtual topics

When you publish a virtual topic from Event Endpoint Management, you can choose to publish it to:

  • Event Endpoint Management catalog only: The virtual topic is available only in the Event Endpoint Management catalog.
  • Developer Portal only: The virtual topic is available only in Developer Portal.
  • Both: The virtual topic is available in both the Event Endpoint Management catalog and Developer Portal.

Using virtual topics

To use virtual topics published to Developer Portal in Kafka client applications:

  • Create Developer Portal applications using one or more virtual topics.
  • Configure Kafka clients by using the connection information that Developer Portal provides for the published virtual topic and application.

Next steps