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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.
An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]
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
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.
The Web Application Description Language (WADL) is a machine-readable XML description of HTTP-based web services. [1] WADL models the resources provided by a service and the relationships between them. [1]
Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. The documentation either explains how the software operates or how to use it, and may mean different things to people in different roles. Documentation is an important part of software engineering. Types of documentation ...
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