There were two obvious choices: a RESTful API, and a Web Service API. We both had experience with both kinds of Web APIs, and neither of us had a strong preference.

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core. There are several ways to secure your APIs in ASP.NET Core 7. You can ...

Master the tenets of RESTful web service design If you want to learn how to develop RESTful web services and, at the same time, confirm you comply with best practices and avoid RESTful antipatterns, ...

The publication and availability of the Bloglines API marks the growing popularity of Web services among well-known sites and opens the door to new applications built on the underlying Bloglines ...

Randy Bias defended his position that OpenStack should support APIs to control Amazon Web Services at today's CloudBeat conference. The lively exchange shows the issues should be around for a while.

The SOAP API, which never moved out of beta status, carried a 1,000-queries-per-day cap. But the AJAX API, also in beta, has other limitations, such as returning a maximum of eight results per query.

The API featured in the Summer 2006 release, called V1: Agile API, uses a secure Web services interface to allow developers to integrate V1 with third-party offerings such as requirements management ...

eBay's Web services API allows programs to search through on-line auctions, but only if the programmer doesn't get too frustrated first. During the past few months, we have looked at the Web services ...