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=== History of API's === | === History of API's === | ||
''''60 >>''' as '''libraries''', but problems of distribution for the lack of a dystributed system. <br> | ''''60 >>''' as '''libraries''', but problems of distribution for the lack of a dystributed system. <br> | ||
''''70-'80 >>''' emergence of a distributed system and possibility of exchange by '''remote''' through the ''Remote Procedure Call (RPC)'' systems, that uses the ''Interface Definition Languages (IDL)'', or alternatively on techniques based on '''Message Oriented Middleware''', such as ''IBM MQSeries'', through the use of "''queues''". | ''''70-'80 >>''' emergence of a distributed system and possibility of exchange by '''remote''' through the ''Remote Procedure Call (RPC)'' systems, that uses the ''Interface Definition Languages (IDL)'', or alternatively on techniques based on '''Message Oriented Middleware''', such as ''IBM MQSeries'', through the use of "''queues''". <br> | ||
''''80-'90 >>'''<br> | |||
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'''2000 >>'''<br> | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
Revision as of 14:06, 19 October 2018
API
Application Programming Interface
What is an API?
Sooo an API is basically an application that works on a meta-level and permits the exchange of informations between two software services through the use of protocols.
It is really interesting the idea of API's ecosystem >> It would be nice to explore in a graphical way the system of relations between different software services and API's that permits those relations.
Types of API's
Methods of access
- Software libraries & Frameworks
- OS (POSIX)
- Remote
- Message-Oriented Middlewere (MOM)
- Web
Styles of Organizzations
- Procedural
- Object-oriented
- Service-oriented
- Resources-oriented
History of API's
'60 >> as libraries, but problems of distribution for the lack of a dystributed system.
'70-'80 >> emergence of a distributed system and possibility of exchange by remote through the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) systems, that uses the Interface Definition Languages (IDL), or alternatively on techniques based on Message Oriented Middleware, such as IBM MQSeries, through the use of "queues".
'80-'90 >>
late '90 >>
2000 >>
Sources
wikipedia IT & ENG
Alan Frye - What is an API?
/Types of API?
/A bit of API history?