As it was briefly described earlier, an application in Oracle APIP CS represents the consumers for one or many APIs. For API-Platform an application is just a logical representation, therefore it does not matter what the application actually is. It can be a mobile application, a web application or even a wearable device.
Applications are uniquely identified with applications keys which can be visualized by clicking on the application itself and accessing the application details page:
Management portal–applications page
