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Can we stop saying 'API' to talk about Web service? API is more generic than that. It is the abstraction describing software components and operations. Any go

by dudul 11y ago

Can we stop saying 'API' to talk about Web service? API is more generic than that. It is the abstraction describing software components and operations. Any good library should have a good API.

blater 11y ago
Except the term "web service" is just as overloaded as "API" - its got the very specific old school meaning of a SOAP/WSDL API which typically isn't exposed as a service on the web :(
- IvanGoncharov 11y ago
  What about "REST API"?
  - tedyoung 11y ago
    Alas, that seems to have also been reduced to simply meaning "JSON over HTTP", instead of taking advantage of Hypermedia, but there is hope with more articles, such as http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles http://www.infoq.com/articles/programming-semantic-profiles, being written.