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The API allows clients to search or browse Amazon.com's product catalog; to retrieve detailed product information, reviews, and images; and to interface with customer shopping carts. Purchases at Amazon through a third-party website or application allows the operators of that site to earn up to 8.5% in referral fees.
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:
Typical endpoints can be expressed by URI Templates. In Open API terms the endpoints are resources that the API exposes. The old (2004) term "end point" received also a glossary definition: [2] An association between a binding and a network address, specified by a URI, that may be used to communicate with an instance of a service. An end point ...
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis. Clients will often use this in combination with autoscaling (a process that allows a client to use more computing in times of high application usage ...
A web service (WS) is either: a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or; a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a network, serving web documents (HTML, JSON, XML, images). [citation needed]
JAX-RS uses annotations, introduced in Java SE 5, to simplify the development and deployment of web service clients and endpoints. From version 1.1 on, JAX-RS is an official part of Java EE 6. A notable feature of being an official part of Java EE is that no configuration is necessary to start using JAX-RS.
SSL Mutual Authentication can be used to secure the connection between an API client and the API Management gateway that manages the API. Support for the PATCH and HEAD methods When defining the HTTP method type for an API operation, in addition to the GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE methods, the PATCH and HEAD method types can be specified.