I was particularly interested in accepting Packt Publishing‘s offer to provide a book review of Masoud Kalali‘s and Bhakti Mehta‘s Developing RESTful Services with JAX-RS 2.0, WebSockets, and JSON ...

It’s easy to get sloppy in your APIs, so here’s a refresher on how to be correctly RESTful in your client scripts Recently, I was trying to write a little client script for Apache Solr. It was just ...

The standard package communication format is JSON packets sent through RESTful services. There are other ways to send data such as SOAP, OData and XML, but JSON is the default standard. A JSON API can ...

While you might be familiar with APIs, we’ll get into how they work and how they can be used in this tech project, using low-code programming to check the weather with your home lab. If your ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

The API is a powerful and versatile means to connect diverse and disparate software applications. APIs allow a vast array of unrelated software products to integrate and interoperate with other ...

A Web API is an online “application programming interface” that allows developers to interact with external services. These are the commands that the developer of the service has determined will be ...