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In March 2015, SmartBear Software acquired the open-source Swagger API specification from Reverb Technologies, Wordnik's parent company. [6] In November 2015, SmartBear announced that it was donating the Swagger specification to a new organization called the OpenAPI Initiative, under the sponsorship of the Linux Foundation.
The Swagger API project was created in 2011 by Tony Tam, technical co-founder of the dictionary site Wordnik. During the development of Wordnik's products, the need for automation of API documentation and client SDK generation became a major source of frustration.
For example, [12] Yahoo's open search API allows developers to integrate Yahoo search into their own software applications. The addition of this API provides search functionality to the developer's application whilst also increasing search traffic for Yahoo's search engine hence benefitting both parties.
A software development kit (SDK) is a collection of software development tools in one installable package. They facilitate the creation of applications by having a compiler, debugger and sometimes a software framework. They are normally specific to a hardware platform and operating system combination.
API documentation is traditionally found in documentation files but can also be found in social media such as blogs, forums, and Q&A websites. [54] Traditional documentation files are often presented via a documentation system, such as Javadoc or Pydoc, that has a consistent appearance and structure.
OpenAPI may refer to: Konica Minolta OpenAPI, an API and SDK from the MFP manufacturer Konica Minolta; Open API, a set of web technologies for inter-website communication; OpenAPI Specification, a specification and complete framework implementation (formerly named Swagger) for describing, producing, consuming, and visualizing RESTful web services
Konica Minolta OpenAPI is based around a SOAP/XML architecture, however a "wrapper" to abstract the SOAP messages is provided to allow developers to use the Microsoft .NET Framework instead. The wrapper is also available for Mono , with no significant differences to the .NET wrapper.
A software development kit is a specific type of kit that is used to develop a specific type of application usually for the end users. Pages in category "Software development kits" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.