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An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. [1] A document or standard that describes how to build such a connection or interface is called an API specification.
An example of a popular web API is the Astronomy Picture of the Day API operated by the American space agency NASA. It is a server-side API used to retrieve photographs of space or other images of interest to astronomers, and metadata about the images. According to the API documentation, [15] the API has one endpoint:
Salesforce, Inc. is an American cloud-based software company headquartered in San Francisco, California.It provides applications focused on sales, customer service, marketing automation, e-commerce, analytics, artificial intelligence, and application development.
APIs provided by the Information Model Management Service. API management is the process of creating and publishing web application programming interfaces (APIs), enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.
Socrata exposes an OData API. Microsoft Azure exposes an OData API. Oracle Analytics Cloud can connect to an OData API; SAP NetWeaver Gateway [37] provides OData access to SAP Business Suite and SAP Business Warehouse. IBM WebSphere eXtreme Scale REST data service can be accessed by any HTTP client using OData. [38]
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]
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages.As one of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now also supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go. [3]
Software architecture: Middleware. The term is most commonly used for software that enables communication and management of data in distributed applications.An IETF workshop in 2000 defined middleware as "those services found above the transport (i.e. over TCP/IP) layer set of services but below the application environment" (i.e. below application-level APIs).