Add an API to your Web Service

APIs are a great way to extend your application, build a community, excite your users and get in on the Mashup Mania spreading across the web. While there’s plenty out there wanting in on the action, there’s a lot of questions about how to actually go about creating an API for a web application. Like everything else technical on the web these days, there are tons of complicated and scary documents out there ready to intimidate the unprepared. In an attempt to get everyone on the bus in one piece, we’ve tried to filter through the hard stuff and give an easy to understand starting point for anyone on a quest to API’ify their web service.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of functions that one computer program makes available to other programs (or developers) so they can talk to it directly without having to give it access to the source code. The most popular APIs are from operating systems like Windows XP or Mac OS X. They allow third-party developers to write programs on top of Microsoft’s and Apple’s software. Thanks to pioneers like Amazon and eBay, the concept of APIs have to come to the web in full force and are being released by more and more web services and applications to turn their one-trick pony into platforms.

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