This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. What are "APIs?" An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of protocol routines, and tools for building software. APIs ...

What is Remote Method Invocation (RMI)? Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is an application programming interface in the Java programming language and development environment.It allows objects on one ...

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...