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API v SOA
The concept of API's seems to be making press recently; the idea of business applications providing API's for others to consume.
But isn't this the fundamental of SOA that has been around since the early 2000's?
I'm failing to see the difference between a service and API?
But isn't this the fundamental of SOA that has been around since the early 2000's?
I'm failing to see the difference between a service and API?
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A service is a type of api
Dennis
Dennis
You will get conflicting answers on that question :-)
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:)
A service is a type of api
Dennis
What other types of API are there?
A service is a type of api
Dennis
What other types of API are there?
Initially, an API was a way for programmers to access low level programing from high level languages. Today the term is mainly used to refer to an interface used to expose code written and maintained by other programmers without releasing the source code.
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Or an API is a type of service etc?