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Revision as of 14:22, 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
Sources
wikipedia IT & ENG
Alan Frye - What is an API?
/Types of API?
/A bit of API history?