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SOAP and REST

SOAP and REST

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SOAP and REST

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- [Instructor] Application programming interfaces are quickly becoming the most popular way to integrate systems and interact with web services. An Application Programming Interface or API is a set of exposed web interfaces that allow programmatic interaction between services. For example, Amazon Web Services publishes an API that allows developers to provision resources, maintain their cloud environments, and perform other administrative actions. Twitter also publishes an API that allows users to post tweets, search through other users' tweets and perform the same interactions with the service that they would normally perform through the Twitter website in an automated way. The Twitter API allows anyone to write code that interacts with Twitter, or use applications built by other developers that use the Twitter API. The earliest APIs made use of a standard called the Simple Object Access Protocol, or SOAP. SOAP allows the…

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