About API and Web Services
In this lesson, we’ll discuss API and web services.
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 ...