You could set up your own web service/API, or you could be fetching from an already existing service/API. In this article, we discuss how to use a web API from within your Android app, to fetch ...

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.

In the SOAP 1.1 spec: 0 In the SOAP 1.2 primer: 9 As we proceed to put the Web back into Web services, we’ll revisit lessons that we learned, or didn’t, about how to design URI namespaces.

Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Web developers looking for a performance boost in ASP.NET 7 Web API projects can pick some low-hanging fruit by using caching. Caching is used to store frequently used data or information in local ...

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.

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 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 ...