User:Tancre/Prototyping/API

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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?