About API and Web Services
In this lesson, we’ll discuss API and web services.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
What is an API?
API stands for Application Programming Interface.
It is a software interface that allows two distinct services/applications to interact without one having to know the implementation details of the other. It is what we call, protocol agnostic.
What is a web service?
A web service is a medium that lets two machines communicate with each other over a network.
In other words, it allows communication between the client and the server ...