Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Web API is typically a defined set of HTTP request messages along with a definition of the structure of response messages, typically expressed in JSON or XML. While "Web API" is sometimes considered a synonym for web service, the Web 2.0 applications typically have moved away fro ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Web API is typically a defined set of HTTP request messages along with a definition of the structure of response messages, typically expressed in JSON or XML. While "Web API" is sometimes considered a synonym for web service, the Web 2.0 applications typically have moved away from SOAP based web services towards more direct REST style communications. Web APIs allow the combination of multiple services into new applications known as mashups .