IBM Z Integration Guide for the Hybrid Cloud and API Economy

Architecture options for service and API enablement

This chapter describes the main integration architectures that can be used for service and API enablement of IBM Z applications.

This chapter includes the following topics:

•2.1, “APIs” on page 8

•2.2, “REST and JSON” on page 12

•2.3, “SOAP web services” on page 13

•2.4, “Messaging and events” on page 15

2.1 APIs

Computer programmers are familiar with the concept of an application programming interface (API). Historically, an API refers to the published details for a defined set of capabilities ...