====== [hemmerling] Application programming interface ( API ) & Service Provider Interface ( SPI ) ======
Related page:
  *[[3dframeworks.html|3D Graphics Frameworks]].
  *[[linkeddata.html|Linked Data & Linked Open Data ( LOD )]].
  *[[dsl.html|Textual and Graphical Modeling by Domain Specific Languages]].
  *[[rest.html|Representational State Transfer ( REST )]].
  *[[sframeworks.html|Software Frameworks]].
  *[[webtech.html|Web Technologies ( HTML5, HTML, XML & Javascript )]].
===== API Implementations =====
==== 3D Graphics Frameworks ====
  *See [[3dframeworks.html|3D Graphics Frameworks]].
==== AsyncAPI ====
  *[[http://www.asyncapi.com/|AsyncAPI Initiative]] - "Building the future of Event-Driven Architectures (EDA)".
  *[[http://www.github.com/asyncapi|GitHub "AsyncAPI Initiative"]].
  *For use with message broker & streaming data technologies like "Kafka".
==== GraphQL ====
=== The API ===
  *[[http://www.graphql.org/|GraphQL]].
    *"A query language for your API".
    *Input: JSON without values. Output: JSON with values.
  *[[http://www.graphql.org/learn/|GraphQL "Introduction to GraphQL"]].
=== Resources ===
  *[[http://www.reactjs.org/blog/2015/02/20/introducing-relay-and-graphql.html|React.JS Blog "Introducing Relay and GraphQL"]].
  *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphQL|EN.Wikipedia "GraphQL"]].
==== Linked Data & Linked Open Data ( LOD ) ====
  *See [[linkeddata.html|Linked Data & Linked Open Data ( LOD )]].
==== Representational State Transfer ( REST ) ====
  *See [[rest.html|Representational State Transfer ( REST )]].
  *HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State), Open API Initiative (OAI), RAML - RESTful API Modeling Language. See [[rest.html|Representational State Transfer ( REST )]].
==== SOAP ( Soap XML ) ====
  *[[http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_soap.asp|W3CSchool "XML Soap"]].
  *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP|EN.Wikipedia "SOAP"]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOAP|DE.Wikipedia "SOAP"]].
==== Web API ====
  *[[https://www.apigee.com/|Apigee]] - "The leading API platform for enterprises and developers".
    *I was told: If you work by Apigee APIs, some other third-party services like Twitter accept nuch more API traffic than if you would access the APIs of the third-party services directly :-)
  *[[http://www.apiary.io/|Apiary]] - "Powerful API Design Stack. Built for Developers. Work together to quickly design, prototype, document and test APIs".
    *[[http://help.apiary.io/|Oracle + Apiary Help]], [[http://docs.apiary.io/|Apiary Powered Documentation]].
    *JSON editor [[http://hemmerling.apiary.io/|Apiary]], [[http://app.apiary.io/hemmerling/|Apiary]].
    *See also [[fiware.html|FIWARE 1/2]].
===== SPI Implementations =====
==== Internet Web Application Integration ===
  *The commercial [[http://www.zapier.com/|Zapier]] - "Connect your apps and automate workflows. Easy automation for busy people. Zapier moves info between your web apps automatically, so you can focus on your most important work".
    *[[http://www.zapier.com/apps|Zapier "Explore All Apps"]] - List of all online Internet Web services with ZAPIER interface, e.g. Twitter.
    *[[http://www.zapier.com/pricing|Zapier "Plans & Pricing"]] - Free plan, with 100 Tasks / month.
    *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapier|EN.Wikipedia "Zapier"]].
    *[[http://docs.quentn.com/de/zapier/zapier-einfuehrung|Quentn - Next Level Marketing Automation "Zapier Einführung"]] - "Zapier ist ein US-Anbieter, der es Ihnen erlaubt, Ihre Quentn-Kampagne mit über 1.500 Drittanbietern nahtlos zu verknüpfen. Dies ist immer dann sinnvoll, wenn Sie Kontaktdaten aus Ihrer Quentn-Kampagne an einen Drittanbieter versenden oder Daten von diesem empfangen möchten".
===== API Test =====
  *Experts suggested, to use [[http://www.nginx.com/|NGINX: Advanced Load Balancer, Web Server, & Reverse Proxy]] in your development & test environment, for testing the web API calls.
===== Literature =====
  *The free PDF book [[http://offers.apigee.com/apidesign-open-offer-page/|Brian Mulloy "Web API Design. Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love"]].
  *The free PDF book [[http://www.sigs-datacom.de/wissen/ebooks/api-management-trends-methoden-techniken|SIGS Datacom "API Management – Trends, Methoden, Techniken"]].
===== Resources =====
  *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface|EN.Wikipedia "Application programming interface"]], [[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmierschnittstelle|DE.Wikipedia "Programmierschnittstelle"]].
  *[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_provider_interface|EN.Wikipedia "Service Provider Interface"]] ( SPI ).
===== Forums, Newsgroups =====
  *[[http://groups.google.com/group/api-craft|Google Groups "API Craft"]].
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