The Swagger ecosystem has always been comprised of the Specification and the core open source tooling around it, most famously the Swagger UI, Swagger Editor, and Swagger Codegen. A big reason why the Specification became so widely adopted was because of the tooling that lived alongside it.
SmartBear donated the Specification, but the popular open source Swagger tooling still retained the original branding due to the strong association developers, tech writers, testers and designers had with the tooling. The specification is not, and has never been solely associated with the Swagger tools. In fact, the decision to donate the specification and form the OpenAPI Initiative is to ensure that OpenAPI remains completely vendor neutral. It’s why we are thrilled to see so many across the API space, including companies that also support other definition formats — like API Blueprint and RAML — join the Initiative.
The Swagger team remains focused on building the most powerful, and easy to use tooling for designing, documenting, developing, and testing APIs using the OpenAPI Specification, and will continue to grow and evolve our toolset to support the OpenAPI. These tools will continue to maintain the Swagger name. Swagger.io, the online home of the Swagger tooling and the open source Swagger projects, will also continue to be a go-to place to learn about the Swagger tools, and we will also continue to contribute to the knowledge around the OpenAPI Specification, through trainings, tutorials, webinars and documentation for working with OpenAPI.
