What is Api / Web-services ?
When you talk to an IT provider, you will often hear these terms!
- API : It's an application programming interface, , it makes it possible to connect two services between them.
In fact, this infrastructure allows data exchange secure and optimal through a network such as Internet .
As of today, two methods share the bulk of the market:
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SOAP, based on an envelope and XML system, it allows to perform specific actions on the server.
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REST, based on the HTTP protocol, it allows the best use of the latter to manipulate data relating to traditional entities.
- Web-services, It's an acronym, a web-service Refers to an end point given to an API.
Here you know a little more about these computer terms ...
See you soon,
Mathieu