User:Tancre/Prototyping/API

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

Sources

wikipedia IT & ENG
Alan Frye - What is an API? /Types of API? /A bit of API history?