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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 the most popular way to integrate systems and interact with web services. An application programming interface, or an API, is a set of exposed interfaces that allow programmatic interaction between services. For example, Amazon Web Services publishes an API that allows developers to provision computing resources, maintain their cloud environment, 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 Twitter service that they would normally perform through the website in an automated way. This API allows anyone to write code that interacts with Twitter or use applications built by other developers that leverage the Twitter API. The earliest APIs made use of a standard called the simple object access protocol, or SOAP. SOAP allows the exchange of…

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