1. A system for providing an application programming interface (API) to deploy a service bus artifact from a local development environment to a cloud environment, comprising: a computer including one or more microprocessors; an application server in a cloud environment, wherein the application server includes a service bus instance provisioned thereon; a local development environment for developing a service bus artifact to be deployed to the cloud environment; a deployment API, plugged into the local development environment, that operates to perform a plurality of operations on the application server at an invocation of a REST service in the local development environment; wherein the plurality of operations are wrapped into a service call to the service bus instance; wherein when each operation is successfully completed, the service bus artifact is deployed and activated for execution in the service bus instance.